5th Earl of Cork

Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or cork:

    “The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful in men’s company, can only be acquired in women’s.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)