east quotes

A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.

-Thomas Gold Appleton
Attributed.

For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is fromthe west, so far hath heremoved our transgressions from us.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms103:11^12.

Whether on Ida's shady brow, Or in the chambers of the East, The chambers of the sun that now From ancient melody have ceased.

-William Blake
  Poetical Sketches,'To The Muses'.

There was three kings into the east, Three kings both great and high, And they hae sworn a solemn oath John Barleycorn should die.

- Robert Burns
  'John Barleycorn.  A Ballad', stanza1.

But the principal failing occurred in the sailing, And the Bellman, perplexed and distressed, Said he had hoped, at least, when the wind blew due East, That the ship would not travel due West!

-Dodgson
  The Hunting of the Snark,'Fit the Second:  The Bellman's Speech'.

   Suddenlya puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange odours of blossoms, of aromatic wood, comes out of the still nightthe first sigh of the east on my face.

- Sir William Neil pseudonym Cassandra Connor
  'Youth'.

   The mysterious East, perfumed like a flower, silent like death, dark like a grave.

- Sir William Neil pseudonym Cassandra Connor
  'Youth'.

The wind's in the east† I am always conscious of an uncomfortablesensationnowand thenwhenthewind is blowing in the east.

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^3  Mr  Jarndyce. Bleak House, ch.6.

Thepractice of politicsintheEast may be defined byone worddissimulation.

- Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
  Contarini Fleming, pt.5, ch.10.

I'm glad we've been bombed.It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face.

- Queen, the Queen Mother Elizabeth
  Comment to a London policeman,13 Sep. Quoted in  John Wheeler-Bennet King George VI (1948), pt.3, ch.6.

Awake! for Morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's turret in a noose of light.

- Edward Fitzgerald
  The Ruba  iya  t of Omar Khayya  m of Naishapur, stanza1.

Now, our music is universal. It shares the rhythmic content of African music, music of the Western Hemisphere and various lands of the East, and has merged this rhythm with European harmonies, the soul of the slaves, the blues, and the spirituals to create jazz.

- Dizzy (John Birks) Gillespie
  Dizzy ^ To Be Or Not To Bop (with  Al Fraser),'Evolutions'.

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till earth and sky stand presently at God's great Judgement seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand facetoface, tho'theycome from the ends of the earth.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'The Ballad of East and West'.

   And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, with the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear: 'A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.'

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  The Naulahka, ch.5.

No.Cost what it may I am determined to go East. The nomad'slife enthrallsme.Itsrestlessnesspursuesme: it is as much part of meas of thesailor. All parts and noneare home to me, and all arriving onlya new setting forth.

- Ella Kini Maillart
  Des Monts Ce  lestes aux Sables Rouges (translated by  John Rodder as Turkestan Solo: One Woman's Expedition from the Tien Shan to the Kizil Kum).

The east wind prevails over the west wind.

-Mao Zedong or MaoTse-tung
  Spoken at an international conference of Communist leaders in Moscow. Quoted in Ross Terrill Mao:  A Biography (1980), ch.14.

There is no silence in the East.

-W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
  The Gentleman in the Parlour.

The Chinese are the aristocracy of the East.

-W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
  The Gentleman in the Parlour.

The inscrutability of the East is, indeed, I believe a myth† The ordinary inhabitant is incomprehensible merely to people who never trouble to have anything much to do with them.

- Dame Freya Madeleine Stark
  TheJourney's Echo.

Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West: the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest child of Liberty.

-William Wordsworth
  OfVenice.'On the Extinction of theVenetian Republic', l.1^4 (published1807).