Lord Viscount Bolingbroke

Famous quotes containing the words lord, viscount and/or bolingbroke:

    “Rou-cou spoke the dove,
    Like the sooth lord of sorrow,
    Of sooth love and sorrow,
    And a hail-bow, hail-bow,
    To this morrow.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “This sort of thing may be tolerated by the French—but we are British, thank God.”
    —Bernard Law, 1st Viscount Montgomery Of Alamein Montgomery (1887–1976)

    “Nations, like men, have their infancy.”
    —Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751)