Famous quotes containing the words noel and/or stated:
“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. The only idea of wit, or rather that inferior variety of the electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of “Wut,” is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)