Eleventh Earl

Famous quotes containing the words eleventh and/or earl:

    “The eleventh day of Christmas,
    My true love sent to me
    Eleven ladies dancing,”
    —Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 76–78)

    “There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurts nobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)