Title Earl

Famous quotes containing the words title and/or earl:

    Eternity is not ours by right; and, alone, unrequited sufferings here, form no title thereto.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    Keep carefully not of all scrapes and quarrels. They lower a character extremely; and are particularly dangerous in France, where a man is dishonoured by not resenting an affront, and utterly ruined by resenting it.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)