British Fleet

Famous quotes containing the words british and/or fleet:

“The earth is mankind’s ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it’s as though one of God’s cheques has bounced.”
—Gilbert Adair, British author, critic. quoted in: London Sunday Correspondent Magazine (Dec. 24, 1989)

“They ... fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)