Fletcher Class Destroyers

Famous quotes containing the words fletcher, class and/or destroyers:

    “Joys as winged dreams fly fast,
    Why should sadness longer last?
    Grief is but a wound to woe;
    Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.”
    —John Fletcher (1579–1625)

    “There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)