Sir John Scott

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

“Well! If the Bard was weather-wise, who made
The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence,”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

“And that enquiring man John Synge comes next,
That dying chose the living world for text
And never could have rested in the tomb
But that, long travelling, he had come
Towards nightfall upon certain set apart
In a most desolate stony place....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)