Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or cork:
“Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“I think I owe my life to cork soles.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)