Sir Gilbert Elliot

Famous quotes containing the words sir, gilbert and/or elliot:

    Give me the critic bred in Nature’s school,
    Who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule;
    Who feeling’s honest dictates still obeys,
    And dares, without a precedent, to praise.
    Martin Archer, Sir Shee (1769–1850)

    Of course you will pooh-pooh whatever’s fresh and new, and declare
    it’s crude and mean;
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    I’ll be right here.
    Melissa Mathison, U.S. screenwriter, and Steven Spielberg. ET, ET The Extra-Terrestrial, saying goodbye to Elliot as he touches Elliot’s forehead—ET’s final words in the film (1982)