Sir Richard Francis

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

    “Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel,
    And death in ambush lay in every pill.”
    —Samuel, Sir Garth (1661–1719)

    “If thee thy brittle beauty so deceives,
    Know then the thing that swells thee is thy bane;
    For the same beauty doth, in bloody leaves.
    The sentence of thy early death contain.”
    —Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608–1666)

    “One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)