Baron Foster of Thames Bank

Famous quotes containing the words baron, foster, thames and/or bank:

    “I loathe that I did love,
    In youth that I thought sweet;”
    —Thomas Vaux, 2d Baron Vaux Of Harrowden (1510–1566)

    “Bernstein: “Girls delightful in Cuba stop. Could send you prose poems about scenery but don’t feel right spending your money stop. There is no war in Cuba. Signed Wheeler.” Any answer?
    Charles Foster Kane: Yes—Dear Wheeler, You provide the prose poems, I’ll provide the war.”
    —Orson Welles (1915–1985)

    “I wander thro’ each charter’d street,
    Near where the charter’d Thames does flow,
    And mark in every face I meet
    Marks of weakness, marks of woe.”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.”
    —Christina Stead (1902–1983)