Sir John Davies

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

    and the words never said,
    And the ominous, ominous dancing ahead.
    We sat in the car park till twenty to one
    And now I’m engaged to Miss Joan Hunter Dunn.
    Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate,
    That few but such as cannot write, translate.
    John, Sir Denham (1615–1669)

    Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.
    —Robertson Davies (b. 1913)