Hundred Years War/second Peace - 1389%e2%80%931415

Famous quotes containing the words years, war and/or peace:

    What blessed you
    that you sit,
    sedately no harlot
    a witness
    as years pass,
    to beauty?
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    ... children do not take war seriously as war. War is soldiers and soldiers have not to be war but they have to be soldiers. Which is a nice thing.
    Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
    As modest stillness and humility.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)