Rebel King

Famous quotes containing the words rebel and/or king:

    No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
    Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990)

    The King [Charles II] after the Restoration accused the poet, Edmund Waller, of having made finer verses in praise of Oliver Cromwell than of himself; to which he agreed, saying, that Fiction was the soul of Poetry.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)