Famous quotes containing the words russian, civil, war and/or aftermath:
“Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosophers stone.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)
“[I]t is a civil Cowardice to be backward in asserting what you ought to expect, as it is a military Fear to be slow in attacking when it is your Duty.”
—Richard Steele (16721729)
“The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who dont go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. Its always so.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (18941961)
“The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)