Sir John Scott

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

    Secrecy is the badge of fraud.
    John, Sir Chadwick (b. 1941)

    This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and No.
    —Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–1890)

    The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader’s mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)