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)

    “Think of what our Nation stands for,
    Books from Boots’ and country lanes,
    Free speech, free passes, class distinction,
    Democracy and proper drains.”
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    “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)