Famous quotes containing the words earl, lords and/or england:
“I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus’s spear: if one end kills, the other cures.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The twelfth day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Twelve lords a-leaping.”
—Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 89–91)
“It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)