London Country South

Famous quotes containing the words london, country and/or south:

    “A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.”
    —Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)

    “Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. To be able to recognize a freak, you have to have some conception of the whole man, and in the South the general conception of man is still, in the main, theological.”
    —Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)