Famous quotes containing the words sir, james and/or murray:
“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)
“... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“Strung out and spotty, you wriggle and sigh
and kiss all the fellows and make them all die.”
—Les Murray (b. 1938)