"I am one of those men who never enter into controversies but I shall certainly speak my views to anybody whom I may m…"

"I should like to shake Eric Coates but I won't. When I meet him he says, "I just love every note you have written." a…"

"If you can't do anything as good as or even better than what you have already done, then don't do it."

"Every picture shop is filled with pictures of the Emperor; every photographer's with photos--all sizes and in all kin…"

"When Adam and Eve were dispossessed / Of the garden hard by Heaven / They planted another one down in the West / Twas…"

"My music cannot possibly have given you one hundredth part of the joy your music has given me."

"It is an immortal masterpiece. Anybody and everybody today would, I should say, give the rest of their lives to have …"

"Dowghter, in this I can thinke no other But that it is true thys proverbe olde, Hastye love is soone hot and soone co…"

"Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer! List, ye landsmen, all to me; Messmates, hear a brother sailor Sing the danger…"

"Fill it up, about ship wheel it, Close to our lips a brimmer join: Where's the tempest now, who feels it? None — the …"