Famous quotes containing the words officer and/or wear:
“When Prince William [later King William IV] was at Cork in 1787, an old officer ... dined with him, and happened to say he had been forty years in the service. The Prince with a sneer asked what he had learnt in those forty years. The old gentleman justly offended, said, “Sir, I have learnt, when I am no longer fit to fight, to make as good a retreat as I can” —and walked out of the room.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have
To wear away this long age of three hours
Between our after-supper and bedtime?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)