Famous quotes containing the words chief, constable and/or sir:
“Lincoln becomes the American solar myth, the chief butt of American credulity and sentimentality.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
All Nature was degraded;”
—William Blake (1757–1827)