Paris

"I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city...It is a real city, old and fine and life plays in it for everybody to see."

(Katherine Mansfield)

"To err is human. To loaf is Parisian."

(Victor Hugo)

London

"I don't know what London's coming to-the higher the buildings the lower the morals."

(Noel Coward)

"Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew-

Wanted to know what the river knew.

Twenty bridges or twenty two.

For they were young, and the Thames was old

And this is the tale that the river told."

(Rudyard Kipling)

London

"Go Where we may, rest where we will'

Eternal London haunts us still."

(Thomas Moore)

"Paris is a women but London is an independent man puffing on his pipe in a pub."

(Jack Kerouac. Lonesome Traveller)

The Painswick Yews

" Lets talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;

Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes

Write sorrow on the bosum of the earth,

Lets choose executors and talk of wills."

(William Shakespear. Richard III)

"Within its gates I heard the sound.

Of winds in cypress caverns caught

Of huddling trees that moaned and sought

To whisper what their roots had found."

(George Sterling. A dream of fear)

Richmond

"Rilke wrote: These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving spaces between them, as though their growth it too increased."

(Gaston Bachelard)

"Trees, how many of 'em do we need to look at ?"

(Ronald Regan)

Paris

"....the greatest merit of the place is that one can arrange ones life here exactly as one pleases...."

(Henry James)

"Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris."

(Oscar Wilde) 

Paris

"He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing more tragic. Nothing is more sublime."

(Victor Hugo)

"As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and make plans."

(Ernest Hemingway)

Merry Christmas

"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home."

(Charles Dickens)

Have a good Christmas and a happy New Year and thank you all for checking out Fine Line.