Famous quotes containing the words sir john, sir and/or scott:
“Treason doth never prosper: whats the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
—Sir John Harington (15611612)
“Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate,
That few but such as cannot write, translate.”
—John, Sir Denham (16151669)
“In a few days Ill have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plodalways bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faultsrather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940)
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