South Lead Hill

Famous quotes containing the words south, lead and/or hill:

    “If you are one of the hewers of wood and drawers of small weekly paychecks, your letters will have to contain some few items of news or they will be accounted dry stuff.... But if you happen to be of a literary turn of mind, or are, in any way, likely to become famous, you may settle down to an afternoon of letter-writing on nothing more sprightly in the way of news than the shifting of the wind from south to south-east.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

    “I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

    “What rein can hold licentious wickedness
    When down the hill he holds his fierce career?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)