Title Earl

Famous quotes containing the words title and/or earl:

“That title of respect
Which the proud soul ne’er pays but to the proud.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The King [Charles II] after the Restoration accused the poet, Edmund Waller, of having made finer verses in praise of Oliver Cromwell than of himself; to which he agreed, saying, that Fiction was the soul of Poetry.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)