Sir Ernest Macmillan

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

    “Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel,
    And death in ambush lay in every pill.”
    —Samuel, Sir Garth (1661–1719)

    “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)

    “Power? It’s like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.”
    —Harold MacMillan (1894–1986)