Sir William Pepperrell

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

    “‘Come, walk like this,’ the dancer said,
    ‘Stick you your toes—stick in your head,
    Stalk on with quick, galvanic tread—
    Your fingers thus extend;
    The attitude’s considered quaint,’”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.”
    —Robin, Sir Day (b. 1915)

    “Here lies the body of W. W.,
    Who never more will trouble you, trouble you.”
    —Anonymous. “On William Wilson, Tailor,” from H. J. Loaring’s Curious Records (1872)