Famous quotes containing the words london and/or country:
“One of the many to whom, from straightened circumstances, a consequent inability to form the associations they would wish, and a disinclination to mix with the society they could obtain, London is as complete a solitude as the plains of Syria.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)