Lord Cork

Famous quotes containing the words lord and/or cork:

    Rou-cou spoke the dove,
    Like the sooth lord of sorrow,
    Of sooth love and sorrow,
    And a hail-bow, hail-bow,
    To this morrow.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    When Prince William [later King William IV] was at Cork in 1787, an old officer ... dined with him, and happened to say he had been forty years in the service. The Prince with a sneer asked what he had learnt in those forty years. The old gentleman justly offended, said, “Sir, I have learnt, when I am no longer fit to fight, to make as good a retreat as I can” —and walked out of the room.
    Horace Walpole (1717–1797)