1st Viscount Canterbury

Famous quotes containing the words viscount and/or canterbury:

    “If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.”
    —William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (1779–1848)

    “But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily, every cause contributes some assistance to the effect’s existence.”
    —Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109)