Famous quotes containing the words sir william and/or sir:
“On a tree by a river a little tom-tit Sang “Willow, titwillow, titwillow!”
And I said to him, “Dicky-bird, why do you sit Singing, “Willow, titwillow, titwillow!””
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.”
—Herbert Beerbohm, Sir Tree (1853–1917)