Sir Crisp Gascoyne

Famous quotes containing the words sir and/or crisp:

    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)

    The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
    —Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)