Sir John French

Famous quotes containing the words sir, john and/or french:

    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)

    The kind of scientist who has no room for faith in his universe is rather old-fashioned nowadays.
    Robert D. Andrews, and Nick Grindé. Dr. John Garth (Boris Karloff)

    Have ye got the parcel there for Mrs White?
    Ye haven’t! Oh, begorra!
    Say it’s comin’ down tomorra—
    And it might now, Michael, so it might!’
    —William Percy French (1854–1920)