Sir William Dunbar

Famous quotes containing the words sir william, william and/or dunbar:

    “‘Then I polish all the silver, which a supper-table lacquers;
    Then I write the pretty mottoes which you find inside the
    crackers’—”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “Utopia’s quite another land;
    In her enterprising movements,
    She is England—with improvements,”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “Our pleasance here is all vain glory,
    This false world is but transitory;
    The flesh is bruckle, the Fiend is slee:—
    Timor Mortis conturbat me.”
    —William Dunbar (c. 1465–c. 1530)