Sir John Gascoigne

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

    “Here lies the body of Sir John Guise.
    Nobody laughs, and nobody cries;
    Where his soul is and how it fares
    Nobody knows and nobody cares.”
    —Anonymous. From Frobisher’s New Select Collection of Epitaphs (c. 1791)

    “Fair, rich, and young: how rare is her perfection,
    Were it not mingled with one foul infection!
    I mean, so proud a heart, so curst a tongue,
    As makes her seem nor fair, nor rich, nor young.”
    —Sir John Harington (1561–1612)

    “Full many wanton babes have I,
    Which must be stilled with lullaby.”
    —George Gascoigne (1539–1577)