Yon

Famous quotes containing the word yon:

    “There stands the castle, by yon tuft of trees.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “I am going to my own hearthstone,
    Bosom’d in yon green hills alone—
    A secret nook in a pleasant land,”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)