Sir Ernest Macmillan

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

    “Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.”
    —Robin, Sir Day (b. 1915)

    “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)

    “Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.”
    —Harold MacMillan (1894–1986)