Famous quotes containing the words sir, robert and/or ayton:
“Give me the critic bred in Natures school,
Who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule;
Who feelings honest dictates still obeys,
And dares, without a precedent, to praise.”
—Martin Archer, Sir Shee (17691850)
“My first debate in high schoolResolved: Girls are no goodand I won!”
—Donald Freed, U.S. screenwriter, and Arnold M. Stone. Robert Altman. Richard Nixon (Philip Baker Hall)
“The morning rose, that untouched stands
Armed with her briars, how sweet she smells!
But plucked and strained through ruder hands,
Her sweets no longer with her dwells,
But scent and beauty both are gone,
And leaves fall from her, one by one.”
—Sir Robert Ayton (15701638)