Famous quotes containing the words dear, lord and/or london:
“The pain, the calm, and the astonishment,
Desire illimitable, and still content,
And all dear names men use, to cheat despair,”
—Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)
“These are thy wonders, Lord of power,
Killing and quickning, bringing down to hell
And up to heaven in an houre;
Making a chiming of a passing-bell.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)