Noble Lords

Famous quotes containing the words noble and/or lords:

    A frere ther was, a wantowne and a merye,
    A lymytour, a ful solempne man.
    In alle the ordres foure is noon that kan
    So muchel of daliaunce and fair langage.
    He hadde maad ful many a mariage
    Of yonge wommen at his owene cost.
    Unto his ordre he was a noble post.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,
    The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant,
    The captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of letters,
    The generous patrons of art, the statesmen and the rulers,
    Distinguished civil servants, chairmen of many committees,
    Industrial lords and petty contractors, all go into the dark....
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)