Lady Mordaunt

Famous quotes containing the words lady and/or mordaunt:

    Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet;
    In short, my deary, kiss me and be quiet.
    Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

    Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
    Throughout the sensual world proclaim,
    One crowded hour of glorious life
    Is worth an age without a name.
    —Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730–1809)