Famous quotes containing the words countess and/or close:
“Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty—excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable—should persist after the beauty was gone.”
—Mary A. [Elizabeth, Countess Von] Arnim (1866–1941)
“For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)