Sir John Williams

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

    “There was a young lady called Gloria
    Who was had by Sir Gerald Du Maurier
    And then by six men
    And Sir Gerald again
    And the band of the Waldorf-Astoria.”
    —Anonymous.

    “Mrs. John Lyford is so much pleased with the state of
    widowhood as to be going to put in for being a widow again; she
    is to marry a Mr. Fendall.”
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    “What is more pretentiously
    useless
    or about which
    we more pride ourselves?
    It leads as often as not
    to our undoing.”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)