Sir Henry Newbolt

Famous quotes containing the words sir, henry and/or newbolt:

“Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army.”
—Richard, Sir Hull (b. 1907)

“Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

“‘Ye have robbed,’ said he, ‘ye have slaughtered and made an end,
Take your ill-got plunder, and bury the dead:
What will ye more of your guest and sometime friend?’
‘Blood for our blood,’ they said.”
—Sir Henry Newbolt (1862–1938)