Oldest Continuous

Famous quotes containing the words oldest and/or continuous:

“While the system of holding people in hostage is as old as the oldest war, a fresher note is introduced when a tyrannic state is at war with its own subjects and may hold any citizen in hostage with no law to restrain it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.”
—Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960)