East Bengal Evacuees

Famous quotes containing the words east and/or bengal:

    “I’m glad we’ve been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face.”
    —Elizabeth, Queen Mother (b. 1900)

    “Warmest climes but nurse the cruelest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)