1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside

Famous quotes containing the words baron and/or douglas:

    “The wrinkles in my brow,
    The furrows in my face,
    Say, limping age will lodge him now
    Where youth must give him place.”
    —Thomas Vaux, 2d Baron Vaux Of Harrowden (1510–1566)

    “I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.”
    —Norman Douglas (1868–1952)