Famous quotes containing the words sir arthur, sir, arthur and/or cotton:
“Excellent! I cried.
Elementary, said he.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (18591930)
“When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
All Nature was degraded;”
—William Blake (17571827)
“As for evildoers, for them awaits a painful chastisement;
but for those who believe, and do deeds
of righteousness, they shall be admitted
to gardens underneath which rivers flow,
therein dwelling forever,
by the leave of their Lord, their greeting
therein: Peace!”
—QurAn. Abraham 14:28 (ed. Arthur J. Arberry, 1955)
“It is remarkable with what pure satisfaction the traveler in these woods will reach his camping-ground on the eve of a tempestuous night like this, as if he had got to his inn, and, rolling himself in his blanket, stretch himself on his six-feet-by-two bed of dripping fir twigs, with a thin sheet of cotton for roof, snug as a meadow-mouse in its nest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)