Famous quotes containing the words sir william, william and/or lovelace:
“Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age,
Photographically lined
On the tablet of my mind,”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind,
That from the nunnery
Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind
To war and arms I fly.”
—Richard Lovelace (1618–1658)