Famous quotes containing the words sir, david and/or murray:
“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)
“There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Strung out and spotty, you wriggle and sigh
and kiss all the fellows and make them all die.”
—Les Murray (b. 1938)