Port Arthur massacre may refer to one of two mass killings:
- Port Arthur massacre (China), on 21 November 1894, in the Chinese coastal town of Lüshunkou
- Port Arthur massacre (Australia), on 28 April 1996, at the Port Arthur old prison colony in Tasmania
Famous quotes containing the words port, arthur and/or massacre:
“When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing about in the mazurka and the polka, with their coattails flying and their bustles bouncing, to say nothing of their all-day sessions with the port and straight bourbon,... we must realize that we are a nation, not of neurasthenics, but of sissies and slow-motion sports.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
“The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)