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

    “Will, when speaking well can’t win her,
    Saying nothing do’t?
    Prithee, why so mute?”
    —Sir John Suckling (1609–1642)

    “Here lies the body of Sir John Guise.
    Nobody laughs, and nobody cries;
    Where his soul is and how it fares
    Nobody knows and nobody cares.”
    —Anonymous. From Frobisher’s New Select Collection of Epitaphs (c. 1791)

    “I have a Vision of the Future, chum.
    The workers’ flats in fields of soya beans
    Tower up like silver pencils, score on score.”
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)