Cathay Quotes

I trust my readers will join me in grandly ignoring the complaints of sour-faced and grumpish scholars that "no such person" ever existed and that his Boke of Voiages and Travailes is a hoax and a forgery. What do they know, the old frumps, who have never dared emerge from their dusty libraries to tread the heaving quarterdeck and raise sail for Golden Ind, and Far Cathay, and the Islands of Prester John? (John Mandeville)
To eat the lotus of the Nile And drink the poppies of Cathay. View quote
John Greenleaf Whittier
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson