Fletcher Class Destroyers

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

    “Little deeds of kindness,
    Little words of love,
    Make our earth an Eden,
    Like the heaven above.”
    —Julia A. Fletcher Carney (1823–1908)

    “All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.”
    —Sydney Smith (1771–1845)

    “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)