Baron Eliot

Famous quotes containing the words baron and/or eliot:

“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)

“Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)