North East Somerset

Famous quotes containing the words north, east and/or somerset:

“I’m trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.”
—Oliver North (b. 1943)

“A puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange odours of blossoms, of aromatic wood, comes out the still night—the first sigh of the East on my face. That I can never forget. It was impalpable and enslaving, like a charm, like a whispered promise of mysterious delight.... The mysterious East faced me, perfumed like a flower, silent like death, dark like a grave.”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

“Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)