Famous quotes containing the words london and/or country:
“One of the many to whom, from straightened circumstances, a consequent inability to form the associations they would wish, and a disinclination to mix with the society they could obtain, London is as complete a solitude as the plains of Syria.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“As to politics, we were like the rest of the country people in England; that is to say, we neither knew nor thought any thing about the matter.”
—William Cobbett (1762–1835)