Brief Lives Quotes

“This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.”
― John Aubrey, Brief Lives

“As he lay expiring in the agony of death, the standers-by could hear him say softly 'I have seen the glories of the world.”
― John Aubrey, Brief Lives

“How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!”
― John Aubrey, Brief Lives