Baron

Famous quotes containing the word baron:

    I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make certain they are still going.
    William Norman, 1st Baron Of Ulverston Birkett (1883–1962)

    Sleep, and forget all things but one,
    Heard in each wave of sea,—
    How lonely all the years will run
    Until I rest by thee.
    John Byrne Leicester Warren, 3rd Baron De Tabley (1835–1895)

    People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
    Kenneth MacKenzie Clark, Baron of Saltwood (1903–1983)