Great Northern War/1719%e2%80%931721 - Sweden

Famous quotes containing the words northern and/or war:

    “I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”
    —Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

    “A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)