Degree East Longitude

Famous quotes containing the words degree and/or east:

“There is always a degree of ridicule that attends a disappointment, though often very unjustly, if the expectation was reasonably grounded; however, it is certainly most prudent not to communicate, prematurely, one’s hopes or one’s fears.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“The beds i’ th’ East are soft.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)