Famous quotes containing the words viscount and/or fleet:
“If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.”
—William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (1779–1848)
“On the middle of that quiet floor
sits a fleet of small black ships,
square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
their spars like burned matchsticks.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)