2nd Earl of Manchester

Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or manchester:

“Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must always have the most money.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)