General Sir John

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

    “People’s backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.”
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    “That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    “When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
    All Nature was degraded;”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “The origin of storms is not in clouds,
    our lightning strikes when the earth rises,
    spillways free authentic power:
    dead John Brown’s body walking from a tunnel
    to break the armored and concluded mind.”
    —Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)