Rebel King

Famous quotes containing the words rebel and/or king:

    “... Rebel against the flesh and bone,
    The word of the blood, the wily skin,
    And the maggot no man can slay.”
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    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)