Yellow Medicine East

Famous quotes containing the words yellow, medicine and/or east:

“A yellow ribbon, Miss Dandridge. You know what that means in the cavalry—a sweetheart.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)

“Authority, though it err like others,
Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,
That skins the vice o’ the top.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“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)