Famous quotes containing the words thomas, baron and/or downfall:
“You’re a dreamer, Doc. Too much money is bad for dreamers.”
—John Thomas Neville. Jean Yarborough. Henry Morton (Guy Usher)
“As ye of clay were cast by kind,
So shall ye waste to dust.”
—Thomas Vaux, 2d Baron Vaux Of Harrowden (1510–1566)
“Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)