Sir Roger De

Famous quotes containing the words roger de, sir and/or roger:

    “As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.”
    —Roger De Bussy-Rabutin (1618–1693)

    “Give me the critic bred in Nature’s school,
    Who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule;
    Who feeling’s honest dictates still obeys,
    And dares, without a precedent, to praise.”
    —Martin Archer, Sir Shee (1769–1850)

    “Draw round beloved and bitter men,
    Draw round and raise a shout;
    The ghost of Roger Casement
    Is beating on the door.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)