1st Earl Russell

Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or russell:

    “A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak very correctly and grammatically, and to pronounce properly; that is, according to the usage of the best companies.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “Then, with eyes that saw not, I kissed her;
    And she, kissing back, could not know
    That my kiss was given to her sister,
    Folded close under deepening snow.”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)