Famous quotes containing the words viscount and/or weir:
“I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.”
—Edward F. Wood, Viscount Halifax (1881–1959)
“The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim’s cheque-books.”
—Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914)