Turbot Street

Famous quotes containing the words turbot and/or street:

    How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
    John Ruskin (1819–1900)

    If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The street is as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)