Famous quotes containing the words sir, thomas and/or wyatt:
“Give me the critic bred in Nature’s school,
Who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule;
Who feeling’s honest dictates still obeys,
And dares, without a precedent, to praise.”
—Martin Archer, Sir Shee (1769–1850)
“Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.”
—Eighteenth-century English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)
“Nothing on earth more would I have,
Save that I have, to have it still.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)