West Bengal Surface

Famous quotes containing the words west, bengal and/or surface:

    “The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.
    Now spurs the lated traveller apace
    To gain the timely inn.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “In Bengal to move at all
    Is seldom, if ever, done,
    But mad dogs and Englishmen
    Go out in the midday sun.”
    —Noël Coward (1899–1973)

    “A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)