Sir Francis Drake

Famous quotes containing the words sir, francis and/or drake:

“When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
All Nature was degraded;”
—William Blake (1757–1827)

“Do not conceale no beauty grace,
That’s either in thy minde or face,
Least vertue overcome by vice,
Make men beleeve no Paradice.”
—Sir Francis Kynaston (1587–1642)

“Have caviar if you like, but it tastes like herring to me.”
—William A. Drake (1900–1965)