Famous quotes containing the words sir, herbert and/or read:
“‘Shall we fight or shall we fly?
Good Sir Richard, tell us now,
For to fight is but to die!”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“making what’s new
Ill and good, old, for as we die in you,
You die in Time, Time in Eternity.”
—Edward Herbert (1583–1648)
“Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters—because girls can read as well as boys—reading this book? Is it a book that you would have lying around in your own house? Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?”
—Mervyn Griffith-Jones (1909–1979)