“My Lord Tomnoddy got up one day; It was half after two, He had nothing to do, So his Lordship rang for his cabriolet.”— Richard Harris Barham
“Because you are a great lord, you think you are a great genius... Nobility, fortune, rank, position... what have you done to deserve so much? You took the trouble to be born, and nothing more.”— Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
“It's awf'lly bad luck on Diana, Her ponies have swallowed their bits; She fished down their throats with a spanner And frightened them all into fits.”— John Betjeman