Famous quotes containing the words east, lake and/or high:
“The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (18041881)
“Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
“Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England!”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
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