Famous quotes containing the words sir and/or thomas:
“When Sir Robert Walpole was dying, he told Ranby his surgeon that he desired his body might be opened. Ranby acting great horror cried, “Good God, my Lord, don’t talk of that!” “Nay,” said Sir Robert, “it will not be till I am dead, and that I shall not feel it—nor you neither.””
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“as she fleeth afore
Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore
Since in a net I seek to hold the wind.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)