Famous quotes containing the words earl, lords and/or england:
“In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Men of England, wherefore plough
For the lords who lay ye low?”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“I think that both here and in England there are two schools of thought—those who would be altruistic in regard to the Germans, hoping that by loving kindness to make them Christian again—and those who would adopt a much tougher attitude. Most decidedly I belong to the latter school, for though I am not blood-thirsty, I want the Germans to know that this time at least they have definitely lost the war.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)