Greater Manchester County

Famous quotes containing the words greater, manchester and/or county:

    “O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee,
    Whose graceless children scorn to own thee!
    ... Yet thou hast greater cause to be
    Ashamed of them, than they of thee.”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

    “The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    “In the County Tyrone, in the town of Dungannon,”
    —Unknown. The Old Orange Flute (l. 1)