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)
“Cole Thornton: Just a minute, son.
Mississippi: I am not your son. My name is Alan Bourdillon Traherne.
Cole: Lord almighty.
Mississippi: Yeah, well, thats why most people call me Mississippi. I was born on the river in a flatboat.”
—Leigh Brackett (19151978)
“The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (18591930)