Famous quotes containing the words sir, gilbert and/or elliot:
“Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army.”
—Richard, Sir Hull (b. 1907)
“A taste for drink, combined with gout,
Had doubled him up forever.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“Dule and wae for the order sent our lads to the Border;
The English, for ance, by guile won the day:
The Flowers of the Forest, that foucht aye the foremost,
The prime o’ our land, are cauld in the clay.”
—Jean Elliot (1727–1805)