Famous quotes containing the words sir william, sir and/or lovelace:
“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)
“Haf owre, haf owre to Aberdour,
It’s fiftie fadom deip,
And thair lies guid Sir Patrick Spence,
Wi the Scots lords at his feit.”
—Unknown. Sir Patrick Spens (l. 41–44)
“Yet this inconstancy is such
As you too shall adore;
I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more.”
—Richard Lovelace (1618–1658)