Earl St Vincent

Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or vincent:

    “We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “And mother almost always sighs,
    When father carves the duck.
    Then all of us prepare to rise,
    And hold our bibs before our eyes,
    And be prepared for some surprise,
    When father carves the duck.”
    —Ernest Vincent Wright Wotton (1872–1939)