Famous quotes containing the words sir and/or mortimer:
“Dug from the tomb of taste-refining time,
Each form is exquisite, each block sublime.
Or good, or bad,disfigurd, or depravd,
All art, is at its resurrection savd;
All crownd with glory in the critics heavn,
Each merit magnified, each fault forgiven.”
—Martin Archer, Sir Shee (17691850)
“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
—John Mortimer (b. 1923)