Sir Peter

Famous quotes containing the words sir and/or peter:

“Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate,
That few but such as cannot write, translate.”
—John, Sir Denham (1615–1669)

“That matches are made in heaven, may be, but my wife would have been just the wife for Peter the Great, or Peter Piper. How would she have set in order that huge littered empire of the one, and with indefatigable painstaking picked the peck of pickled peppers for the other.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)