Charing Cross Embankment

Famous quotes containing the words charing cross, charing and/or cross:

    “I went out to Charing Cross to see Major-General Harrison hanged, drawn and quartered—which was done there—he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition.”
    —Samuel Pepys (1633–1703)

    “As I was going by Charing Cross,
    I saw a black man upon a black horse;
    They told me it was King Charles the First—”
    —Unknown. As I was going by Charing Cross (l. 1–3)

    “Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.”
    —Indian proverb, quoted in Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, ch. 30, “From the Notebooks” (1987)