Famous quotes containing the words baron and/or patten:
“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)
“There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.”
—Chris Patten (b. 1944)