4th Earl of Bedford

Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or bedford:

    “Keep carefully not of all scrapes and quarrels. They lower a character extremely; and are particularly dangerous in France, where a man is dishonoured by not resenting an affront, and utterly ruined by resenting it.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “A part, a large part, of travelling is an engagement of the ego v. the world.... The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks and as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time.”
    —Sybille Bedford (b. 1911)