Famous quotes containing the words earl, mar and/or centuries:
“Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Mend your speech a little,
Lest you may mar your fortunes.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The Cad is the entire epitome, the complete blossom and fruit in one, of what we are told is an age of culture. Behold him in the vélodrome as he yells insanely after his kind as they tear along on their tandem machines in a match, and then ask yourself candidly, O my reader, if any age before this in all the centuries of earth ever produced any creature so utterly low and loathsome, so physically, mentally, individually, and collectively hideous?”
—Ouida [Marie Louise De La Ramée] (1839–1908)