Silent King

Famous quotes containing the words silent and/or king:

“Be silent always when you doubt your sense;
And speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence:”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

“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)