Fletcher Class Destroyers

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

    “All Love’s Emblems and all cry,
    Ladies, if not pluckt we dye,”
    —John Fletcher (1579–1625)

    “The great disadvantage, and advantage, of the small urban bourgeois is his limited outlook. He sees the world as a middle- class world, and everything outside these limits is either laughable or slightly wicked.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

    “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)