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Quotes About Dover

Since the days of the air our old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defences of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.
~ Peter Townsend
The White Cliffs of Dover had been sculpted all along their length into the gigantic visages of famous Brits – another attempt at injecting rebrand vibrancy into the declining real-world economy.
~ Adam Roberts
Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this burden "Hush
~ Gayle Forman
And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films.
~ Irene Dunne
The white cliffs of Dover, I saw rising steeplyOut of the sea that once made her [England] secure.
~ Alice Duer Miller
I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover I saw, rising steeply Out of the sea that once made her secure.
~ Alice Duer Miller
We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.
~ Sabine Baring-Gould
After Richmond, we went to Dover and tested that week at Kentucky. I was going to Dover and we had to get the trainer to meet us at the airport. I had to do some therapy on my ribs they hurt so bad.
~ Sterling Marlin
The white cliffs of Dover are a significant landmark and it is so encouraging to know that they will now be protected for future generations.
~ Vera Lynn
You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books.
~ Lois Lowry
I like to have fish and salad - mackerel, Dover sole or gurnard, and I usually pan-fry it or use the barbecue. I make salad with avocados, tomato, lettuce and spring onions, with an olive oil and red wine dressing.
~ Rick Stein
When lovers are in love, they don't diminish. When wanderers wander, they do not diminish. The world lays itself out beautiful before them; a rich tapestry to explore; with love in abundance. But for this, a wanderer must be favored by Fortune. Fortune is not "riches," it is "Poetic Beauty" that comes by surprise!—like a ship coming in from Dover…
~ Roman Payne
This Dover edition, first published in 2006, contains the unabridged republication of the plays Oedipus. Tyrannus, Oedipus. Coloneus, and Antigone from the volume The Dramas of Sophocles Rendered in English Verse Dramatic (5 Lyric by Sir George Young, as published by J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., London, in 1906.
~ Sophocles
The gulls swept over Dover. They sailed out like flakes of the fog, and tacked back towards the hidden town, while the siren mourned with them: other ships replied, a whole wake lifted up their voices—for whose death?
~ Graham Greene
Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine.
~ Stanley Baldwin
I like Dover sole. It's always one of my favorites. I like it when I'm in England. I eat it every day almost. I think it's probably one of my favorite fish.
~ Wolfgang Puck
My three-course meal would be: smoked salmon with capers and a few prawns on there as well. Then it would be a dover sole grilled on the bone with a portion of green beans. And if I wasn't dieting or looking after myself, my favourite pudding would be bread and butter pudding with custard, ice cream and clotted cream all together!
~ Neil Warnock
The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.
~ Douglas Bader
Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this burden "Hush
~ Gayle Forman
The first group I went to, there were introductions: this is Alice, this is Brenda, this is Dover. Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
1920's Fashions from B. Altman & Company (Dover Publications
~ Laura Moriarty
It was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late in November, before the first of the persons with whom this history has business.
~ Charles Dickens
When the French come over, May we meet them at Dover!
~ Charles Dickens
The whole business of the human race, between London and Dover, being spoliation, Mr Dorrit was waylaid at Dartford, pillaged at Gravesend, rifled at Rochester, fleeced at Sittingbourne, and sacked at Canterbury.
~ Charles Dickens