Sir Richard Burton

Famous quotes containing the words sir, richard and/or burton:

    “Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army.”
    —Richard, Sir Hull (b. 1907)

    “If thee thy brittle beauty so deceives,
    Know then the thing that swells thee is thy bane;
    For the same beauty doth, in bloody leaves.
    The sentence of thy early death contain.”
    —Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608–1666)

    “Idleness is an appendix to nobility.”
    —Robert Burton (1577–1640)