Sole Heir

Famous quotes containing the words sole and/or heir:

“The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“‘Tis the curse of service,
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to th’ first.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)