Courtiers Quote by Joseph Conrad

The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for…

— Joseph Conrad

We must not think too unkindly even of the east wind. It is not, perhaps, a wind to be loved, even in its benignest…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

“The winds of wrath came driving him, and blindly in the foam he fled from west to east, and errandless, unheralded he homeward sped.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune.

— Sophocles

And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses…

— H. G. Wells

The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails…

— Swami Vivekananda

The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes; And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, Foretells a tempest and a blustering…

— William Shakespeare

“The moment I took hold of the line, I felt the mighty tug of the wind coursing into my palm and wrist, and there…

— Mike Blakely

“They’re all in church,” he said and saw the flush of guilt, or of wind, on her broad cheeks. The wind lifted his own…

— Alice McDermott

To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary.

— George Herbert

And all winds go sighing For sweet things dying.

— Christina Rossetti