Famous quotes containing the words state, supreme and/or courts:
“I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.”
—Samuel Beckett (19061989)
“We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.”
—Joseph De Maistre (17531821)
“With the gracious consent of the audience, you will be made to don the red tophatMa token phrase that the courts had evolved, whose true meaning was known to every schoolboy.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
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