German Night Fighter

Famous quotes containing the words german, night and/or fighter:

“Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
Georgius Secundus was then alive,—
Snuffy old drone from the German hive.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

“A pleasant smell of frying sausages
Attacks the sense, along with an old, mostly invisible
Photograph of what seems to be girls lounging around
An old fighter bomber, circa 1942 vintage.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)