Kingfisher East Bengal

Famous quotes containing the words kingfisher, east and/or bengal:

    “the mud
    Flies from his hunching wings and beak—my heart,
    The blue kingfisher dives on you in fire.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.”
    —Philip Guedalla (1889–1944)

    “In Bengal to move at all
    Is seldom, if ever, done,
    But mad dogs and Englishmen
    Go out in the midday sun.”
    —Noël Coward (1899–1973)