Sir Walter Raleigh

Famous quotes containing the words sir, walter and/or raleigh:

“We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.”
—Humphrey, Sir Gilbert (c.1537–1583)

“A stroke of the pen is better than a stroke of the sword, no?”
—Ernest Pascal, and Walter Lang. Wilhelm (Stanley Andrews)

“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)