Famous quotes containing the words dear, lord and/or london:
“Wee image of my bonnie Betty,
I fatherly will kiss and daut thee,
As dear an near my heart I set thee
Wi as guid will,
As a the priests had seen me get thee
Thats out o hell.”
—Robert Burns (17591796)
“Most Gracious Queen, we thee implore
To go away and sin no more,
But if that effort be too great,
To go away at any rate.”
—Anonymous. On Queen Caroline, in Diary and Correspondence of Lord Colchester (1861)
“I dont care very much for literary shrines and haunts ... I knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyles yard. And when I said, Why throw a stone into Carlyles yard? she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.”
—Carolyn Wells (18621942)