Fletcher Class Destroyers

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

    “Come, all sad and solemn shows,
    That are quick-eyed Pleasure’s foes!
    We convent nought else but woes,
    We convent nought else but woes.”
    —John Fletcher (1579–1625)

    “The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.”
    —Louise Bogan (1897–1970)

    “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)