Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or stair:
“An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Provence,
The Renascence, the age of Pericles, each
A broad, rich-carpeted stair to pride
With manhood now the cost they’re easy to follow
For the ways taken are all notorious,
Lettered, sculptured, and rhymed....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)