Famous quotes containing the words sir william, sir, william and/or lovelace:
“I love my fellow creatures—I do all the good I can —
Yet everybody says I’m such a disagreeable man!”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.”
—Humphrey, Sir Gilbert (c.1537–1583)
“The thirst to know and understand,
A large and liberal discontent.”
—Sir William Watson (1858–1935)
“Love, then unstinted, Love did sip,
And cherries plucked fresh from the lip;
On cheeks and roses free he fed;
Lasses like autumn plums did drop,
And lads indifferently did crop
A flower and a maidenhead.”
—Richard Lovelace (1618–1658)