Liege Quotes
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This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid: Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.
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More Liege Quotes
The feudal warranty is, doubtless derived from the ancient duty of the feudal lord to protect his liege man 'with fire and sword against all deadly'. It was of the essence of the feudal bond, that the vassal should be under his lord's protection.
edward jenks— Chapter VIII, Methods Of Alienation, p. 109
I, Charles, Prince of Wales, do become your liege man of life and limb and of earthly worship and faith and truth I will bear unto you to live and die against all manner of folks.
Prince of Wales Charles— Oath of fealty taken by the Prince at his investiture at Caernarfon Castle, 1 July 1969.
Der philosophische Mensch hat sogar das Vorgefühl, dass auch unter dieser Wirklichkeit, in der wir leben und sind, eine zweite ganz andre verborgen liege...
friedrich nietzsche— Underneath this reality in which we live and have our being, another and altogether different reality lies concealed...p. 23, William Haussmann translation
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry V (c. 1599), Act II, scene 4, line 74.
The feudal warranty is, doubtless derived from the ancient duty of the feudal lord to protect his liege man 'with fire and sword against all deadly'. It was of the essence of the feudal bond, that the vassal should be under his lord's protection.
— Chapter VIII, Methods Of Alienation, p. 109
I saw mage Merlin, whose vast wit And hundred winters are but as the hands Of loyal vassals toiling for their liege.
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in Idylls of the King, The Coming of Arthur
Mine honor is my life, both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595), Act I, scene I, lines 182-185.
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, As self-neglecting.
— Dauphin, scene iv
