Famous quotes containing the words eastern and/or general:
“I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience—it also marks the time, which is four o’clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)
“The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.”
—A.J. (Arthur James)