Sidney Webb

Famous quotes containing the words sidney webb, sidney and/or webb:

    The inevitability of gradualness cannot fail to be appreciated.
    Sidney Webb (Lord Passfield, Or Baron Pass (1859–1947)

    In vain thou kindlest all thy smoky fire,
    For virtue hath this better lesson taught,
    Within myself to seek my only hire,
    Desiring nought but how to kill desire.
    —Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

    English Bob: What I heard was that you fell off your horse, drunk, of course, and that you broke your bloody neck.
    Little Bill Daggett: I heard that one myself, Bob. Hell, I even thought I was dead. ‘Til I found out it was just that I was in Nebraska.
    —David Webb Peoples, screenwriter. English Bob (Richard Harris)