1st Earl of Stair

Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or stair:

    Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others; and thus charged up to the muzzle are resolved to let it off at any rate.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    Provence,
    The Renascence, the age of Pericles, each
    A broad, rich-carpeted stair to pride
    With manhood now the cost they’re easy to follow
    For the ways taken are all notorious,
    Lettered, sculptured, and rhymed....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)