Famous quotes containing the words sir william and/or sir:
“Matrimonial devotion
Doesn’t seem to suit her notion.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,
And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away:
‘Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!’”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)