Sir Thomas Dyer

Famous quotes containing the words sir, thomas and/or dyer:

    “We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.”
    —Humphrey, Sir Gilbert (c.1537–1583)

    “Deep with the first dead lies London’s daughter,
    Robed in the long friends,
    The grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother,
    Secret by the unmourning water
    Of the riding Thames.
    After the first death, there is no other.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “My mind to me a kingdom is;
    Such present joys therein I find
    That it excels all other bliss
    That earth affords or grows by kind.
    Though much I want which most would have,
    Yet still my mind forbids to crave.”
    —Sir Edward Dyer (c. 1540–1607)