Famous quotes containing the words sir william and/or hamilton:
“I love my fellow creatures—I do all the good I can—
Yet everybody says I’m such a disagreeable man!”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.”
—Edith Hamilton (1867–1963)