1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer

Famous quotes containing the words earl, oxford and/or mortimer:

“By-gones are by-gones, as Chartres, when he was dying, said of his sins: let us look forwards.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.”
—Robertson Davies (b. 1913)

“The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.”
—John Mortimer (b. 1923)