Admiral Sir William

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

    “What though I cannot meet my bills?
    What though I suffer toothache’s ills?
    What though I swallow countless pills?”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “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)

    “Give me the critic bred in Nature’s school,
    Who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule;
    Who feeling’s honest dictates still obeys,
    And dares, without a precedent, to praise.”
    —Martin Archer, Sir Shee (1769–1850)