Sir William

Famous quotes containing the words sir william and/or sir:

    A feather bed had every man,
    Warm slippers and hot-water can,
    Brown windsor from the captain’s store,
    A valet, too, to every four.
    Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.
    Robin, Sir Day (b. 1915)