Silly Roll Call

Famous quotes containing the words silly, roll and/or call:

“But as some silly young men returning from France affect a broken English, to be thought perfect in the French language; so his Lordship, I think, to seem a perfect understander of the unintelligible language of the Schoolmen, pretends an ignorance of his mother-tongue. He talks here of command and counsel as if he were no Englishman, nor knew any difference between their significations.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)

“Roll on, thou ball, roll on!
Through pathless realms of Space”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

“O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)