Famous quotes containing the words realms and/or monstrous:
“I shall be a benefactor if I conquer some realms from the night, if I report to the gazettes anything transpiring about us at that season worthy of their attention,—if I can show men that there is some beauty awake while they are asleep,—if I add to the domains of poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)