Famous quotes containing the words english and/or ships:
“Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea,
London has swept about you this score years
And bright ships left you this or that in fee:
Ideas, old gossip, oddments of all things,
Strange spars of knowledge and dimmed wares of price.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)