British Ships

Famous quotes containing the words british and/or ships:

    “Gorgonised me from head to foot,
    With a stony British stare.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “Shuttles in the rocking loom of history,
    the dark ships move, the dark ships move,
    their bright ironical names
    like jests of kindness on a murderer’s mouth;”
    —Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)