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Quotation from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
“Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.”
Bleak House, Chapter I, In Chancery (Project Gutenberg text)
The famous opening description of London on a November afternoon, leading to the Court of Chancery at the heart of the fog.
Citation: "Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city." — Charles Dickens, Bleak House, Chapter I, In Chancery (Project Gutenberg text). (id bleak-house-q1)
Portrait: Dickens Gurney head, Jeremiah Gurney, Public domain.
