Famous quotes containing the words sir john, sir, brooke and/or halsey:
“They warsled up, they warsled down,
Till Sir John fell to the ground,
And there was a knife in Sir Willies pouch,
Gied him a deadlie wound.”
—Unknown. The Twa Brothers (l. 58)
“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)
“Oh! death will find me long before I tire
Of watching you.”
—Rupert Brooke (18871915)
“Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other peoples characters.”
—Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)