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World Quotes - Page 477

An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.63, Vintage

Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?

James Hogg (1840). “The poetical works of the Ettrick shepherd: including the Queen's wake, Pilgrims of the sun, Mador of the moor, Mountain bard, &c. &c”, p.168

I am king of the world!

1998 Accepting his Best Director Oscar for Titanic (1997), 23 Mar, an allusion to a line inTitanic.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.343