Direct Orient Express

Famous quotes containing the words direct, orient and/or express:

    “O wretched fool,
    That lov’st to make thine honesty a vice!
    O monstrous world! Take note, take note, O world,
    To be direct and honest is not safe.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Ask me no more where Jove bestows,
    When June is past, the fading rose;
    For in your beauty’s orient deep
    These flowers, as in their causes, sleep.

    Ask me no more whither do stray
    The golden atoms of the day;
    For in pure love heaven did prepare
    Those powders to enrich your hair.”
    —Thomas Carew (1589–1639)

    “I can express no kinder sign of love
    Than this kind kiss.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)