Sun Kings

Famous quotes containing the words sun and/or kings:

    “Only the desert has a fascination—to ride alone—in the sun in the forever unpossessed country—away from man. That is a great temptation.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “I am the very pattern of a modern Major-Gineral,
    I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral;
    I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical,
    From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)