Famous quotes containing the words sir william, sir and/or rootes:
“I do all the good I can—
Yet everybody says I’m such a disagreeable man!
And I can’t think why!”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“Well! If the Bard was weather-wise, who made
The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence,”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man’s ego like an automobile.”
—Sir William Rootes (1894–1964)