Vile Parle East

Famous quotes containing the words vile and/or east:

    In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well; but
    in respect that it is private, it is a very vile life.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    An inexperienced heraldist resembles a medieval traveler who brings back from the East the faunal fantasies influenced by the domestic bestiary he possessed all along rather than by the results of direct zoological exploration.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)