Famous quotes containing the words templeton prince, frank, templeton and/or prince:
“I feel a strange delight that fills me full,
Strange gratitude, as if evil itself were beautiful,”
—Frank Templeton Prince (b. 1912)
“Let us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so good.”
—Harold MacMillan (1894–1986)
“I feel a strange delight that fills me full,
Strange gratitude, as if evil itself were beautiful,”
—Frank Templeton Prince (b. 1912)
“When Prince William [later King William IV] was at Cork in 1787, an old officer ... dined with him, and happened to say he had been forty years in the service. The Prince with a sneer asked what he had learnt in those forty years. The old gentleman justly offended, said, “Sir, I have learnt, when I am no longer fit to fight, to make as good a retreat as I can” —and walked out of the room.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)