Famous quotes containing the words english and/or county:
“The two most beautiful words in the English language are “check enclosed.””
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
“It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)