Sir John Scott

Famous quotes containing the words sir, john and/or scott:

    Sir Francis, Sir Francis, Sir Francis is come;
    —Unknown. Upon Sir Francis Drake’s Return from His Voyage about the World, and the Queen’s Meeting Him (l. 1)

    Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman ... never gave offence to anyone, not even the enemy.
    —A.J.P. (Alan John Percivale)

    Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you—like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist—or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)