Famous quotes containing the words earl, lords and/or england:
“In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informations of others.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“From scenes like these old Scotia’s grandeur springs,
That makes her loved at home, revered abroad;
Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,
“An honest man’s the noblest work of God!””
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated from long housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)