Devonshire Quotes

I never saw a more beautiful woman, enormous eyes, skin the color of Devonshire cream. (Tennessee Williams)
Instead of the glorious and ever-memorable year 1759, as the newspapers call it, I call it this ever-warm and victorious year. We have not had more conquest than fine weather: one would think we had plundered East and West Indies of sunshine. Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories. I believe it will require ten votes of the House of Commons before people believe it is the Duke of Devonshire that has done this, and not Mr. Pitt. View quote
Horace Walpole
The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First. View quote
John Sergeant Wise
Good men are never concerned in revolutions, because they will not go the lengths. Sunderland caused the revolution of 1688, while Devonshire stood aloof-the latter was the angel, the former the storm. Bad men and poisonous plants are sometimes of superlative use in skilful hands. View quote
Horace Walpole