Closed Night Quote by George Orwell

“It is difficult to gaze in awe at the wonders of ancient Egypt with modern Egypt tugging so insistently at your sleeve.”

— Tony Horwitz

“The first two rooms were in the same state as the corridor. Dirty, and piled with junk. Dead typewriters, telephones, three-legged chairs. I was…

— Hugh Laurie

“All of my days in Egypt had been spent in that house, and looking back on them in the night air, I recalled little…

— Anita Diaman The Red Tent

“but I do take an enormous interest in the personal aspects of what archaeology reveals. I like to find a little dog buried under…

— Agatha Christie

“When they happen across an Adventurer from Mexico, and the ancient City he has discover'd beneath the Earth, where thousands of Mummies occupy the…

— Thomas Pynchon

“It was the same fearful excitement we felt when we happened to drive through what Mummer considered a bad part of London and found…

— Andrew Michael Hurley

“When I first arrived in Egypt many years ago, I looked at the tombs like a tourist. After being to them all so many…

— G. P. Warren

“I took a train to Liverpool. they were having a festival when I arrived. Citizens had taken time off from their busy activities to…

— Bill Bryson

“After bursting open a door of idiotic obstinacy with a weak rattle in its throat, you fell into Tellson’s down two steps, and came…

— Dickens Charles

“They had wandered in a defeated continent of the vulgar world, where vulgarity had lost its power and its pride, and had to repeat…

— Rebecca West

“The room was so neat and tidy it made me feel quite depressed...I do not allow myself to repine about what cannot be helped;…

— Elizabeth Peters

“How shall I abide In this dull world, which in thy absence is No better than a sty?”

— William Shakespeare