East Bengal/first Partition 1905%e2%80%931912 British Period

Famous quotes containing the words east, bengal, british and/or period:

    “From the east to western Inde,
    No jewel is like Rosalind.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Warmest climes but nurse the cruelest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “It’s simple: either you have discipline or you haven’t.”
    —Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. Captain Shepard (Kenneth More)

    “There is a period near the beginning of every man’s life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.”
    —E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)