Sir William Collins

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

    “A man is but an ass
    Who fights in a cuirass,”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman ... I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.”
    —Francis, Sir Drake (1540–1596)

    “The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home;
    ‘Tis summer, the darkeys are gay;
    The corn-top’s ripe, and the meadow’s in the bloom,”
    —Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1884)