British Civil

Famous quotes containing the words british and/or civil:

    “Gaze not on swans, in whose soft breast,
    A full-hatched beauty seems to nest
    Nor snow, which falling from the sky
    Hovers in its virginity.”
    —Henry Noel, British poet, and William Strode, British poet. Beauty Extolled (attributed to Noel and to Strode)

    “The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.”
    —Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835–1930)