Lord Nelson

Famous quotes containing the words lord and/or nelson:

“Superior people remain kind and just even in poverty, but lowly people who become rich lord it over others.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The victors and the vanquished then the storm it tossed and tore,
As hard they strove, those worn-out men, upon that surly shore;
Dead Nelson and his half-dead crew, his foes from near and far,
Were rolled together on the deep that night at Trafalgar!”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)