Sir Humphrey

Famous quotes containing the words sir and/or humphrey:

    At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,
    And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away:
    ‘Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!’
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    Leadership in today’s world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
    —Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)