Famous quotes containing the words walter raleigh, sir walter, walter and/or raleigh:
“Our passions are most like to floods and streams,
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)
“Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)
“But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)
“Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)