Famous quotes containing the words dear, lord and/or london:
“It is thyself, mine own selfs better part:
Mine eyes clear eye, my dear hearts dearer heart,
My food, my fortune, and my sweet hopes aim,
My sole earths heaven, and my heavens claim.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Keep our Empire undismembered
Guide our Forces by Thy Hand,
Gallant blacks from far Jamaica,
Honduras and Togoland;
Protect them Lord in all their fights,
And, even more, protect the whites.”
—Sir John Betjeman (19061984)
“One of the many to whom, from straightened circumstances, a consequent inability to form the associations they would wish, and a disinclination to mix with the society they could obtain, London is as complete a solitude as the plains of Syria.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)