Famous quotes containing the words sir, walter and/or raleigh:
“When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
All Nature was degraded;”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespear when I measure my mind against his.... But I am bound to add that I pity the man who cannot enjoy Shakespear. He has outlasted thousands of abler thinkers, and will outlast a thousand more.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)