Famous quotes containing the words countess of, countess and/or flanders:
“And tell so readily, he knoweth well
How evry star by proper name to call?”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalm CXLVII (Paraphrased by The Countess of Pembroke)
“Strange that the vanity which accompanies beautyexcusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandableshould persist after the beauty was gone.”
—Mary A. [Elizabeth, Countess Von] Arnim (18661941)
“In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,”
—John McCrae (18721918)