Sir John Scott

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

    “Thus while I sit and sigh the day
    With all his borrow’d lights away,
    Till night’s black wings do overtake me,
    Thinking on thee, thy beauties then,
    As sudden lights do sleepy men,
    So they by their bright rays awake me.”
    —Sir John Suckling (1609–1642)

    “‘Shall we fight or shall we fly?
    Good Sir Richard, tell us now,
    For to fight is but to die!”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.”
    —Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–1890)

    “When he urinated, it sounded like night prayer.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)