Famous quotes containing the words london, country and/or south:
“You owe me ten shillings,
Say the bells of St. Helens.
When will you pay me?
Say the bells of Old Bailey.
When I grow rich,
Say the bells of Shoreditch.
Pray when will that be?
Say the bells of Stepney.
I am sure I dont know,
Says the great bell of Bow.”
—Unknown. The Bells of London (l. 1322)
“When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captains exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country withoutoh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.”
—Philip Guedalla (18891944)