fog quotes

Fumbling silence in the White House seeps out over the country like a cold fog over a river bed where no stream runs.

- Dean Gooderham Acheson
  Letter to Harry S  Truman, 28 May, alluding to the Eisenhower administration. Quoted in David S McLellan and David C  Acheson (eds)  Among Friends: Personal Letters of Dean Gooderham  Acheson (1980).

In the natural fog of the good man's mind.

- Robert Browning
  'Christmas Eve'.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world.Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

-Constantinus
  Victory, author's note.

Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.Fogonthe Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in the rigging of great ships† And hard byTemple Bar, in Lincoln's Inn Hall, atthevery heart of the fog, sits the Lord High Chancellor in his High Court of Chancery.

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^3  Bleak House, ch.1.

This is a London particular† A fog, miss.

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^3  Mr Guppy to Esther. Bleak House, ch.3.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

- Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Last words, attributed.

Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  The Waste Land, pt.1,'The Burial of the Dead'.

Happiest when he is trying to sculpture fog.

- Christopher Charles Herbert Lehmann-Haupt
  On Robert C Christopher. In the NewYork Times, 29 May.

The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

- Carl Sandburg
  Chicago Poems,'Fog'.