Sir Ernest Macmillan

Famous quotes containing the words sir, ernest and/or macmillan:

    “Sir Francis, Sir Francis, Sir Francis is come;”
    —Unknown. Upon Sir Francis Drake’s Return from His Voyage about the World, and the Queen’s Meeting Him (l. 1)

    “For it’s home, dearie, home—it’s home I want to be.
    Our topsails are hoisted, and we’ll away to sea.
    O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree
    They’re all growing green in the old countrie.”
    —William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)

    “As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.”
    —Harold MacMillan (1894–1986)