Lord Cowper

Famous quotes containing the words lord and/or cowper:

“The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn’t going to be won by charm and personality.”
—Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. First Sea Lord (Laurence Naismith)

“I cannot talk with civet in the room,
A fine puss-gentleman that’s all perfume.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)