Famous quotes containing the words sir john, sir, john and/or davies:
“Down came the hairy talons
and horrible poison blade
And none of the garden noticed
that fizzing, hopeless fight.”
—Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)
“When the critics come around it’s always too late.”
—Sidney, Sir Nolan (1917–1992)
“Iknowwhata mother tiger does when she’s upset. She eats her young.”
—Guy Trosper, U.S. screenwriter, and John Frankenheimer. Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster)
“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)