Earl Stafford

Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or stafford:

    “A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “a doe, a recent killing;
    she had stiffened already, almost cold.
    I dragged her off she was large in the belly.”
    —William Stafford (1914–1941)