Famous quotes containing the words sir william and/or sir:
“find out who it is that writes those lovely cracker mottoes!’
‘Tell me, Henry Wadsworth, Alfred, Poet Close, or Mister Tupper,
Do you write the bonbon mottoes my Elvira pulls at supper?’”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“‘Shall we fight or shall we fly?
Good Sir Richard, tell us now,
For to fight is but to die!”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)