1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland

Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or holland:

    “Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “The tragedy of Northern Ireland is that it is now a society in which the dead console the living.”
    —Jack Holland (b. 1947)