Famous quotes containing the words flood and/or plain:
“The mighty river flowing dark and deep,
With ebb and flood from the remote sea-tides
Vague-sounding through the Citys sleepless sleep,
Is named the River of the Suicides;”
—James Thomson (18341882)
“Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (16891762)
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