Local Nobility

Famous quotes containing the words local and/or nobility:

“The local snivels through the fields:
I sit between felt-hatted mums....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“The cloud was so dark that it needed all the bright lights that could be turned upon it. But for four years there was a contagion of nobility in the land, and the best blood North and South poured itself out a libation to propitiate the deities of Truth and Justice. The great sin of slavery was washed out, but at what a cost!”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)