False Nile

Famous quotes containing the words false and/or nile:

“We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?”
—Jessamyn West (1902–1984)

“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)