1st Viscount of Stair

Famous quotes containing the words viscount and/or stair:

“Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.”
—John Morley [1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn] (1838–1923)

“Being mocked by Guido for his lecherous life,
Derided and deriding, driven out
To climb that stair and eat that bitter bread,
He found the unpersuadable justice, he found
The most exalted lady loved by a man.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)