Sir John Scott

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

    “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)

    “For beauties from worth arise
    Are like the grace of deities,”
    —Sir John Suckling (1609–1642)

    “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)