Honourable Sir Philip

Famous quotes containing the words honourable, sir and/or philip:

    The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

    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)

    O take fast hold; let that light be thy guide
    In this small course which birth draws out to death,
    —Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)