Nile quotes

Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatraand sank.

-John Mason Brown
  In the NewYork Post,11 Nov.

How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws!

-Dodgson
  Alice's  Adventures in Wonderland, ch.2,'The Pool of  Tears'.

   He said he should prefer not to know the sources of the Nile, and that there should be some unknown regions preserved as hunting-grounds for the poetic imagination.

- George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans Eliot
^2  Middlemarch, bk.1, ch.9.

The Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of theThames. Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pupils might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctityand truth of the revelation of Mahomet.

- Edward Gibbon
^88  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch.52.

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  Mrs Malaprop of Lydia Languish.The Rivals, act 3, sc.3.

The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief.

-John Hanning Speke
  Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile.