Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or cowper:
“Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“I cannot talk with civet in the room,
A fine puss-gentleman that’s all perfume.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)