Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or biography:
“We are as often duped by diffidence, as by confidence.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.”
—André Maurois (1885–1967)