8th Earl of Winchilsea

Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or winchilsea:

“There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“In such a night, when passing clouds give place,
Or thinly veil the heaven’s mysterious face;
When in some river, overhung with green,
The waving moon and trembling leaves are seen;”
—Anne Finch, Countess Of Winchilsea (1661–1720)