Dear Lord London

Famous quotes containing the words dear, lord and/or london:

    It is thyself, mine own self’s better part:
    Mine eye’s clear eye, my dear heart’s dearer heart,
    My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope’s aim,
    My sole earth’s heaven, and my heaven’s claim.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    We enter church, and we have to say, “We have erred and strayed from Thy ways like lost sheep,” when what we want to say is, “Why are we made to err and stray like lost sheep?” Then we have to sing, “My soul doth magnify the Lord,” when what we want to sing is “O that my soul could find some Lord that it could magnify!”
    Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    ...of all the shoddy foreigners one encounters, there are none so depressing as the London shoddy.
    Willa Cather (1876–1947)