Weir Cook

Famous quotes containing the words weir and/or cook:

“The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim’s cheque-books.”
—Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914)

“‘Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold,
And the mate of the Nancybrig,
And a bos’sun tight, and a midshipmite,
And the crew of the captain’s gig!”’”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)