General Sir Richard

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

    “‘Shall we fight or shall we fly?
    Good Sir Richard, tell us now,
    For to fight is but to die!”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.”
    —Olympia Brown (1835–1900)

    “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)

    “Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.”
    —Donald Freed, U.S. screenwriter, and Arnold M. Stone. Robert Altman. Richard Nixon (Philip Baker Hall)