Earl Roger

Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or roger:

    “The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “Draw round beloved and bitter men,
    Draw round and raise a shout;
    The ghost of Roger Casement
    Is beating on the door.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)