Sir Thomas Erskine

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

    “Help me to seek, for I lost it there
    And if that ye have found it, ye that be here,
    And seek to convey it secretly,
    Handle it soft and treat it tenderly,
    Or else it will plain and then appear:”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “Well! If the Bard was weather-wise, who made
    The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence,”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

    “It seems perfectly simple and inevitable, like lying down after a long day’s work.”
    —Robert Erskine Childers (1870–1922)