Famous quotes containing the words sir thomas wyatt, sir thomas, sir, thomas and/or wyatt:
“My most desire my hand may reach,
My will is alway at my hand;
Me need not long for to beseech
Her that hath power me to command.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)
“Patience, do what they will
To work me woe or spite,”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)
“They warsled up, they warsled down,
Till Sir John fell to the ground,
And there was a knife in Sir Willie’s pouch,
Gied him a deadlie wound.”
—Unknown. The Twa Brothers (l. 5–8)
“Was there a time when dancers with their fiddles
In children’s circuses could stay their troubles?”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“And graven with diamonds in letters plain
There is written her fair neck round about:
“Noli me tangere for Caesar’s I am,
And wild for to hold though I seem tame.””
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)