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Quotes About Earl

And then she caught the eye of the earl across the room. He was looking intently at her as if he could read her thoughts. For a moment, caught unawares, she felt the connection there had always used to be between them. She felt breathless.
~ Mary Balogh
Kind of a wuss? Kind of a wuss? Dude, you are, like, the Duke of Wussendorf. The Earl of Wussheim. In fact, wherever wusses meet and mingle, your name is whispered in hushed, reverent tones.
~ Jordan Sonnenblick
If the medieval saints had gone to their deaths as to a wedding, the Earl of Westerholme, thought the kind and scholarly vicar, looked as if he was preparing to invert the trend.
~ Eva Ibbotson
What the devil are you doing here?" continued the earl, his customary good manners quite banished by the shock of seeing this girl whose treachery had not prevented her from haunting his dreams, sleeping and waking, ever since she had gone.
~ Eva Ibbotson
It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
~ Earl Sweatshirt
Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man.
~ Mervyn Peake
There was a library and it is ashes. Let its long length assemble. Than its stone walls its paper walls are thicker; armoured with learning, with philosophy, with poetry that drifts or dances clamped though it is in midnight. Shielded with flax and calfskin and a cold weight of ink, there broods the ghost of Sepulchrave, the melancholy Earl, seventy-sixth lord of half-light.
~ Mervyn Peake
As the Earl of Gormenghast he could never be alone. He could only be lonely.
~ Mervyn Peake
I was screaming and hitting at him, but he thought it all so very funny, and he draped me belly down on the saddle in front of him and then he spurred into the chaos to continue the killing. And that was how I met Ragnar, Ragnar the Fearless, my brother's killer, and the man whose head was supposed to grace a pole on Bebbanburg's ramparts, Earl Ragnar.
~ Bernard Cornwell
The birth of Simon Arthur Henry Fitzranulph Basset, Earl Clyvedon, was met with great celebration. Church bells rang for hours, champagne flowed freely through the gargantuan castle that the newborn would call home…
~ Julia Quinn
Earl Hebner should definitely be in the WWE Hall of Fame.
~ Stone Cold Steve Austin
The birth of Simon Arthur Henry Fitzranulph Basset, Earl Clyvedon, was met with great celebration.
~ Julia Quinn
I saw 'Othello' with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones.
~ Eric McCormack
My lord! We thought you were taking an afternoon nap!" "Sorry to disappoint you," the earl of Sheffield drawled, his voice muffled by the rug. "Someone must have forgotten to tuck me into my cradle.
~ Teresa Medeiros
K: Food really is your weakness. A: Sorry. I haven't had a decent mean since I left the Order! Ty: If you'd asked the Earl, he would've taken you to a three-star restaurant! A: Th-Three stars?! Is th-that how you guys always eat?! J: Allen… K: Bean sprout, you're drooling.
~ Katsura Hoshino
When you act like that…you don't look like a villain who's made the world his enemy…Earl.
~ Katsura Hoshino
Earl had let Bertie off the porch for some fresh grass and I didn't want Dr. Eustace to see her. She still looked as though we'd put Hannibal Lecter in charge of her shearing and had hired the special effects team from Night of the Living Dead to bandage her.
~ Susan Juby
I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.
~ Russell B. Long
Four spies, a monosyllabic earl, an annoying heiress, an obnoxious young sot, two very pleasing ladies—although Olivia had scarcely spoken this evening—and the mother from hell.
~ Celeste Bradley
Somebody tried to pop me with a shotgun." "It doesn't sound like Ronnie Earl." "Why not?" "He's got two interests in life: sex and getting high. The guy's a walking gland. The only reason he got thin was to get laid when he got out. Cain't y'all send us a higher grade of criminals?
~ James Lee Burke
The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
~ Earl Weaver
Als Edward, der Earl of Warwick, tief schlafend in seinem dunklen Schlafzimmer lag, nahm er unterbewusst das Geräusch schwätzender Frauen wahr. Aber sein Unterbewusstsein versicherte ihm gleichzeitig, dass so etwas völlig unwahrscheinlich wäre.
~ Cheryl Bolen
rainy evening dilemma: chamomile or earl grey
~ Terri Guillemets
Biographical Sketch, In Fugitive Crayons, of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford
~ John Pinkerton, 1799