Viscount Stair

Famous quotes containing the words viscount and/or stair:

“What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.”
—Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865)

“I declare this tower is my symbol; I declare
This winding, gyring, spiring treadmill of a stair is my ancestrail stair;
That Goldsmith and the Dean, Berkeley and Burke have travelled there.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)