Famous quotes containing the words sir john, sir, john and/or beckett:
“What a treat to hear Thy Word
Where the bones of leading statesmen,
Have so often been interred.”
—Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)
“When Sir Robert Walpole was dying, he told Ranby his surgeon that he desired his body might be opened. Ranby acting great horror cried, “Good God, my Lord, don’t talk of that!” “Nay,” said Sir Robert, “it will not be till I am dead, and that I shall not feel it—nor you neither.””
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“Marvin, what do we do now?”
—Jeremy Larner, U.S. screenwriter. John McKay (Robert Redford)
“Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)