Famous quotes containing the words royal, scots, years, peace and/or war:
“Here was a royal fellowship of death.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Haf owre, haf owre to Aberdour,
Its fiftie fadom deip,
And thair lies guid Sir Patrick Spence,
Wi the Scots lords at his feit.”
—Unknown. Sir Patrick Spens (l. 4144)
“I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust,... confess that I am astonished at the power of endurance, to say nothing of the moral insensibility, of my neighbors who confine themselves to shops and offices the whole day for weeks and months, aye, and years almost together. I know not what manner of stuff they are of,sitting there now at three oclock in the afternoon, as if it were three oclock in the morning.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“We cant forever be spending our lives paying for political follies that never gave us anything but always took from us, and I am content with the narrowest metes and bounds provided I have peace and quiet for work.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
“The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what Id call imperial provincialism, which afflicts Americas whole cultureaware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isnt part of the local atmosphere.”
—Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)