Napoleonic Wars/war Between Britain and France 1803%e2%80%931814

Famous quotes containing the words wars, war, britain and/or france:

    “You fade—as if the last of days
    Were fading and all wars were done.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    “The funny part of it all is that relatively few people seem to go crazy, relatively few even a little crazy or even a little weird, relatively few, and those few because they have nothing to do that is to say they have nothing to do or they do not do anything that has anything to do with the war only with food and cold and little things like that.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “I’ll stay until I’m tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.”
    —Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925)

    “It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)