Perkin Warbeck, Act III, sc. i. (c. 1629-34)
“Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Canto I, stanza 1; this can be compared to: "To all nations their empire will be dreadful, because their ships will sail wherever billows roll or winds can waft them", Dalrymple, Memoirs, vol. iii, p. 152; "Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow", Charles Churchill, The Farewell, Line 38.
The Corsair (1814)
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Age of Bronze, Stanza 3, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Despising money is like toppling a king off his throne.”
Nicolas Chamfort (1741–1794) French writer
Il y a une sorte de plaisir attaché au courage qui se met au-dessus de la fortune. Mépriser l'argent, c'est détrôner un Roi. Il y a du ragoût.
Maximes et Pensées, #142
Reflections
“You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
...estás en tu casa, donde eres señor della, como el rey de sus alcabalas.
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Prologue
“Ctrl+Alt+Del is the Rubbish King, sitting proudly on a throne of rotting meat.”
Ben Croshaw (1983) English video game journalist
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John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 563.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
Second Dialogue; translated by Judith R. Bush, Christopher Kelly, Roger D. Masters
Dialogues: Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques (published 1782)
“Thrones and crowns of worldly kings carry worth less than shows of donkey for us.”
Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) Indian Sufi saint
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 270
