Famous quotes containing the words chief, constable and/or sir:
“Wholl be chief mourner?
I, said the dove,
Ill mourn for my love,
Ill be chief mourner.”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th18th century. Who killed Cock Robin? (L. 3336)
“The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Shall we fight or shall we fly?
Good Sir Richard, tell us now,
For to fight is but to die!”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)