False Nile

Famous quotes containing the words false and/or nile:

“Passions spin the plot:
We are betrayed by what is false within.”
—George Meredith (1828–1909)

“Hard by the lilied Nile I saw
A duskish river dragon stretched along.
The brown habergeon of his limbs enamelled
With sanguine alamandines and rainy pearl:
And on his back there lay a young one sleeping,
No bigger than a mouse;”
—Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849)