North East Somerset

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

“I felt that he, a prisoner in the midst of his enemies and under the sentence of death, if consulted as to his next step or resource, could answer more wisely than all his countrymen beside. He best understood his position; he contemplated it most calmly. Comparatively, all other men, North and South, were beside themselves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I’ th’ East my pleasure lies.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)