Sir William Robinson

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

    “find out who it is that writes those lovely cracker mottoes!’

    ‘Tell me, Henry Wadsworth, Alfred, Poet Close, or Mister Tupper,
    Do you write the bonbon mottoes my Elvira pulls at supper?’”
    —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)

    “When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte,
    As every child can tell,
    The House of Peers, throughout the war,
    Did nothing in particular,
    And did it very well:”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “They are all gone away,
    The house is shut and still,
    There is nothing more to say.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)