Famous quotes containing the words sir, herbert and/or read:
“I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman ... I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.”
—Francis, Sir Drake (1540–1596)
“Man is all symmetrie,
Full of proportions, one limbe to another,”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust.”
—Piers Paul Read (b. 1941)