earl quotes

Oh I see said the Earl but my own idear is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

- Daisy Mary Margaret Ashford
  TheYoung Visiters, or Mr Salteena's Plan, ch.5.

Few thought he was even a starter There were many who thought themselves smarter But he ended PM CH and OM An earl and a knight of the garter.

-1st Earl
  A limerick on himself, in a letter to Tom  Attlee, 8  Apr.

Ye Highlands and ye Lawlands, O where hae ye been? They hae slain the Earl of Murray And laid him on the green.

-Ballads
'The Bonnie Earl of Murray', stanza1.

As far as the fourteenth earl is concerned, I suppose Mr Wilson, when you come to think of it, is the fourteenth Mr Wilson.

- Baron Douglas-Home
  Response to Harold Wilson's claim that the democratic process had'ground to a halt with a fourteenth earl' when Home won the premiership. Reported in the Daily Telegraph, 22 Oct.

I played the young Earl of Dudleyand was beheaded in the third reelnot, in my opinion, a moment too soon.

- SirJohn Lewis Ernest Watts Mills
  Of his role in the1936 film Tudor Rose. Up in the Clouds, Gentlemen Please.