Famous quotes containing the words sir thomas wyatt, thomas wyatt, sir, thomas and/or wyatt:
“Madame, withouten many wordes,
Ons I ame sure ye will or no;
And if ye will, then leve your bordes,
And use your wit and shew it so.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)
“here I ame in Kent and Christendome
Emong the muses where I rede and ryme;”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)
“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)
“Grief with drenched book and candle christens the cherub time....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“Blame but thyself that hast misdone,
And well deserved to have blame;
Change thou thy way so evil begun,
And then my lute shall sound that same:
But if till then my fingers play
By thy desert their wonted way,
Blame not my lute.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)