Sir Henry Newbolt

Famous quotes containing the words sir, henry and/or newbolt:

“Well! If the Bard was weather-wise, who made
The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence,”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

“Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

“‘Ye have robbed,’ said he, ‘ye have slaughtered and made an end,
Take your ill-got plunder, and bury the dead:
What will ye more of your guest and sometime friend?’
‘Blood for our blood,’ they said.”
—Sir Henry Newbolt (1862–1938)