Imperial Bank

Famous quotes containing the words imperial and/or bank:

    “The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.”
    —Simon Hoggart (b. 1946)

    “on a May morwening upon Malverne hilles
    Me befel a ferly, of fairye me thoughte;
    I was wery ofwandred and wente me to reste
    Under a brod bank by a bournes side;
    And as I lay and lenede and lookede on the watres,
    I slomerede into a sleeping, it swyede so merye.”
    —William Langland (1330–1400)