Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or stair:
“Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The catastrophe
Buried in the stair carpet stayed there
And never corrupted anybody.
And one day he grew up, and the horizon
Stammered politely. The sky was like muslin.
And still in the old house no one ever answered the bell.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)