Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or mansfield:
“Every thing in his composition was little; and he had all the weaknesses of a little mind, without any of the virtues, or even the vices, of a great one.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Were we positive, eager, real—alive? No, we were not. We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be.”
—Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)