Famous quotes containing the words william, cooke and/or died:
“In enterprise of martial kind,
When there was any fighting,
He led his regiment from behind—
He found it less exciting.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.”
—Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)
“Each of us like you
has died once,
each of us like you
stands apart, like you
fit to be worshipped.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)