Provincial City

Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or city:

“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“O City city, I can sometimes hear
Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street,
The pleasant whining of a mandolin
And a clatter and a chatter from within
Where fishmen lounge at noon.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)