States General Assembled

Famous quotes containing the words states, general and/or assembled:

    “How many ages hence
    Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
    In states unborn and accents yet unknown!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.”
    —Olympia Brown (1835–1900)

    “The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.”
    —Lord Denning (b. 1899)