British Heavy Cavalry

Famous quotes containing the words british, heavy and/or cavalry:

    “We “need” cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.”
    —Gilbert Adair, British author, critic. “Under the Sign of Cancer,” Myths and Memories (1986)

    “Two heavy trestles, and a board
    Where Sato’s gift, a changeless sword,
    By pen and paper lies,
    That it may moralise
    My days out of their aimlessness.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “To fight aloud is very brave,
    But gallanter I know,
    Who charge within the bosom
    The Cavalry of Woe.”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)