Captain James Hope

Famous quotes containing the words captain, james and/or hope:

    The sisters, cousins, aunts, and niece,
    And widowed ma of Captain Reece,
    Attended there as they were bid;
    It was their duty, and they did.
    Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender.
    Philip Guedalla (1889–1944)

    Don’t crouch any more and cling to my knees,
    don’t tempt me and try me,
    don’t beg like a child and cry,
    “you have taken my hope away.”
    I am not a god.
    I cannot make you happy.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)