Famous quotes containing the words earl, cork and/or orrery:
“Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“I think I owe my life to cork soles.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“Word of gloom from the war, one day;
Johnston pressed at the front, they say.
Little Giffen was up and away;
A tear—his first—as he bade good-by,
Dimmed the glint of his steel-blue eye.
“I’ll write, if spared!” There was news of the fight;
But none of Giffen.—He did not write.”
—Francis Orrery Ticknor (1822–1874)