1st Baron Mount Temple

Famous quotes containing the words baron, mount and/or temple:

    “People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.”
    —Kenneth MacKenzie Clark, Baron of Saltwood (1903–1983)

    “But mount to paradise
    By the stairway of surprise.””
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “This flea is you and I, and this
    Our mariage bed, and mariage temple is;
    Though parents grudge, and you, w’are met,
    And cloystered in these living walls of Jet.”
    —John Donne (1572–1631)