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 quarteredwhich was done therehe looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition.”
—Samuel Pepys (16331703)
“Cry;and upon thy so sore loss
Shall shine the traffic of Jacobs ladder
Pitched betwixt Heaven and Charing Cross.”
—Francis Thompson (18591907)
“The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)