1st Duke of Wellington

Famous quotes containing the words duke and/or wellington:

    “For the man who should loose me is dead,
    Fighting with the Duke in Flanders,
    In a pattern called a war.
    Christ! What are patterns for?”
    —Amy Lowell (1874–1925)

    “An age and a faith moving into transition,
    the dinner cold and new-baked bread a failure,”
    —Alfred Wellington Purdy (b. 1919)