Sir Ernest Macmillan

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

    “I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman.... I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.”
    —Francis, Sir Drake (1540–1596)

    “O, there’s a wind a-blowing, a-blowing from the west,
    And that of all the winds is the one I like the best,
    For it blows at our backs, and it shakes our pennon free,
    And it soon will blow us home to 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)