London Charing Cross

Famous quotes containing the words charing cross, london, charing and/or cross:

    “I went out to Charing Cross to see Major-General Harrison hanged, drawn and quartered—which was done there—he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition.”
    —Samuel Pepys (1633–1703)

    “Unreal city,
    Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
    A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
    I had not thought death had undone so many.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “I went out to Charing Cross to see Major-General Harrison hanged, drawn and quartered—which was done there—he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition.”
    —Samuel Pepys (1633–1703)

    “Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.”
    —Indian proverb, quoted in Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, ch. 30, “From the Notebooks” (1987)