General Sir Richard

Famous quotes containing the words general, sir and/or richard:

    “Never alone
    Did the King sigh, but with a general groan.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “‘Shall we fight or shall we fly?
    Good Sir Richard, tell us now,
    For to fight is but to die!”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “I’m beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of death among Americans. What you don’t know can indeed hurt you, and so those who can neither read nor write lead miserable lives, like Richard Wright’s character, Bigger Thomas, born dead with no past or future.”
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)