1st Earl of Stafford

Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or stafford:

    Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.
    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)