Admiral Sir John

Famous quotes containing the words sir john, admiral, sir and/or john:

    “Here lies the body of Sir John Guise.
    Nobody laughs, and nobody cries;
    Where his soul is and how it fares
    Nobody knows and nobody cares.”
    —Anonymous. From Frobisher’s New Select Collection of Epitaphs (c. 1791)

    “In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.”
    —Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

    “Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army.”
    —Richard, Sir Hull (b. 1907)

    “His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.”
    —Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878–1957)