Phony War

Famous quotes containing the words phony and/or war:

“Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversarists?”
—W.J. (William J.)

“At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,
And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away:
‘Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!’”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)