Son Sir John

Famous quotes containing the words sir john, son and/or sir:

    “Treason doth never prosper; what’s the reason?
    For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
    —Sir John Harington (1561–1612)

    “Till by and came Our Blessed Lady,
    Her dear young son her wi.

    “Will ye gang to your men again?
    Or will ye gang wi me?
    Will ye gang to the high heavens,
    Wi my dear son and me?””
    —Unknown. Brown Robyn’s Confession (l. 23–28)

    “Give me the critic bred in Nature’s school,
    Who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule;
    Who feeling’s honest dictates still obeys,
    And dares, without a precedent, to praise.”
    —Martin Archer, Sir Shee (1769–1850)