1st Earl of Mansfield

Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or mansfield:

    There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
    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)