Famous quotes containing the words sir, hugh and/or hastings:
“Give me the critic bred in Natures school,
Who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule;
Who feelings honest dictates still obeys,
And dares, without a precedent, to praise.”
—Martin Archer, Sir Shee (17691850)
“Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive
Officiously to keep alive:
Do not adultery commit;
Advantage rarely comes of it:”
—Arthur Hugh Clough (18191861)
“If you cant get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.”
—Max Hastings (b. 1945)
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