Famous quotes containing the words sir walter raleigh, sir walter, sir and/or raleigh:
“If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd’s tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy Love.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)
“Green springs the tree, hemp grows, the wag is wild,
But when they meet, it makes the timber rot;
It frets the halter, and it chokes the child.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)
“When the critics come around it’s always too late.”
—Sidney, Sir Nolan (1917–1992)
“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)