2nd Earl of Somerset

Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or somerset:

    Every thing in his composition was little; and he had all the weaknesses of a little mind, without any of the virtues, or even the vices, of a great one.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
    —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)