British Fleet

Famous quotes containing the words british and/or fleet:

    “I know an Englishman,
    Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.”
    —George Chapman c. 1559–1634, British dramatist, poet, translator. repr. In Plays and Poems of George Chapman: The Tragedies, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (1910)

    “A city on th’ inconstant billows dancing;
    For so appears this fleet majestical.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)