Lady Mordaunt

Famous quotes containing the words lady and/or mordaunt:

    The Lady Amelia would not for worlds have had the de Courcy blood defiled; but gold she thought could not defile.
    Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)

    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)