Famous quotes containing the words sir william, sir, william and/or hicks:
“I know everybody’s income and what everybody earns,
And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns;”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“Secrecy is the badge of fraud.”
—John, Sir Chadwick (b. 1941)
“The thirst to know and understand,
A large and liberal discontent.”
—Sir William Watson (1858–1935)
“Even in ordinary speech we call a person unreasonable whose outlook is narrow, who is conscious of one thing only at a time, and who is consequently the prey of his own caprice, whilst we describe a person as reasonable whose outlook is comprehensive, who is capable of looking at more than one side of a question and of grasping a number of details as parts of a whole.”
—G. Dawes Hicks (1862–1941)