Famous quotes containing the words london and/or country:
“I think this be the most villainous house in all London road for fleas.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain’s exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without—oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)