1st Earl of Stafford

Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or stafford:

    All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    a doe, a recent killing;
    she had stiffened already, almost cold.
    I dragged her off she was large in the belly.
    —William Stafford (1914–1941)