Iron Curtain/pre%e2%80%93cold War Usage

Famous quotes containing the words iron curtain, iron, curtain, war and/or usage:

    A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory.... From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
    Winston Churchill (1874–1965)

    A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory.... From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
    Winston Churchill (1874–1965)

    A curtain of wax dividing them from the bride flight,
    The upflight of the murderess into a heaven that loves her.
    Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

    There never was a good war or a bad peace.
    Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates—but pages
    Might be filled up, as vainly as before,
    With the sad usage of all sorts of sages,
    Who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore!
    The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)