Surrey Brown Caps

Famous quotes containing the words surrey, brown and/or caps:

    “Help to bewail the woeful case
    And eke the heavy plight
    Of me, that wonted to rejoice
    The fortunes of my pleasant choice.
    Good ladies, help to fill my mourning voice.”
    —Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)

    “Unreal City,
    Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
    A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
    I had not thought death had undone so many.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “... people were so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fools’ caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s were transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)