Vanity Plates

Famous quotes containing the words vanity and/or plates:

“My lord, the crown which I have borne so long has given enough of vanity in my time. I beseech you not to augment it in this hour when I am so near my death.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

“Realms and islands were
As plates dropped from his pocket.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)