Sir Richard Burton

Famous quotes containing the words sir richard, sir, richard and/or burton:

    “At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,
    And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away:
    ‘Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!’”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “Secrecy is the badge of fraud.”
    —John, Sir Chadwick (b. 1941)

    “Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.”
    —Donald Freed, U.S. screenwriter, and Arnold M. Stone. Robert Altman. Richard Nixon (Philip Baker Hall)

    “One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.”
    —Robert Burton (1577–1640)