A Quote by John Irving

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

John Irving

Quote Topics

England Goodnight Kings Maine New New England Princes

Quote Author

John Irving
American - Novelist
Born: March 2, 1942

In the kind of New England I'm from, you are expected to stay and marry somebody from New England - well, Maine, actually - so I think it was seen as a betrayal when I left for New York, which has been my refuge.

Elizabeth Strout

Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from the vices, no less than the virtues of Kings.

Charles Caleb Colton

Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.

Margaret Wise Brown

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.

Patrick Stewart

While men compete in war, there will be warriors. While there are warriors, there will be princes among warriors. Among the princes will be kings, and among the kings an emperor.

David Gemmell

I don't go hunting with kings and princes.

Ken Cuccinelli

In a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.

Farouk of Egypt

If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown.

Laozi

When I go skiing in New England, I usually wake up early and drive up to Vermont, New Hampshire, or Maine to make it in time for chairlift opening. That means leaving early and getting breakfast at one of the little quaint diners up in the mountains.

Sunita Williams

For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.

Michael W. Smith

A revelation came to me at 16. All true princes must someday become kings.

Naseem Hamed

What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.

Laozi

Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you wait, the more they will dwindle. At least you could use it for a summer resort instead of Maine.

W. H. Auden

We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

I met my husband, Jacob, in medical school. We married and went to live in Hawaii where his family lived. It was very beautiful, but I wasn't used to being on an island and needed wide open spaces. Eventually we moved to Maine, New England.