A virtuous king is a king who has shirked his proper function — to embody for his subjects an ideal of illustrious misbehaviour absolutely beyond their reach.


Afterthoughts (1931)

Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

A virtuous king is a king who has shirked his proper function — to embody for his subjects an ideal of illustrious misbehaviour absolutely beyond...

A virtuous king is a king who has shirked his proper function — to embody for his subjects an ideal of illustrious misbehaviour absolutely beyond...

A virtuous king is a king who has shirked his proper function — to embody for his subjects an ideal of illustrious misbehaviour absolutely beyond...

A virtuous king is a king who has shirked his proper function — to embody for his subjects an ideal of illustrious misbehaviour absolutely beyond...