Famous quotes containing the words battle of and/or battle:
“The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and back again, change which suddenly dissolves into a moment of extreme catastrophe, a model tragedy because the fate of Europe was determined within this individual fate.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
“That civilisation may not sink,
Its great battle lost,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)