Quote by Bram Stoker

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

— Alexander the Great

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

— Walter Savage Landor

“Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world,—with kings, The powerful of the earth,—the wise, the good, 35 Fair forms, and hoary…

— William Cullen Bryant

“Perhaps there never was a monument more characteristic of an age and people than the Alhambra; a rugged fortress without, a voluptuous palace within;…

— Washington Irving

And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

— John Milton

...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And they lynx which dwelleth forever in…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Though I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that I had…

— Howard Carter

Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their…

— Anonymous

There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful,…

— Joseph Addison

'The Grace of Kings' was meant to read like a set of legends about characters who were bigger than life.

— Ken Liu