Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or germans:
“Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“I fancy we are almost the only nation in the world who seem to think that composition comes by nature. The French attend to their own language, the Germans study theirs; but Englishmen do not seem to think it is worth their while.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)