Cobbe

Cobbe is an Irish surname, and may refer to:

  • Cobbe family, a prominent Irish family
  • Alexander Cobbe, Irish General and holder of VC
  • Frances Power Cobbe, Irish writer and animal rights activist
  • Charles Cobbe, Archbishop of Dublin
  • John George Cobbe, Irish born New Zealand politician
  • Cobbe portrait, believed to be the only existing painting of William Shakespeare, in possession of the Cobbe family at the Newbridge Estate.

Famous quotes containing the word cobbe:

    “[Women’s] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.”
    —Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904)

    “I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and “manage” by base arts a husband or a father,—I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes.”
    —Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904)