Famous quotes containing the words sir and/or bernard:
“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)
“It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)