Famous quotes containing the words russian, civil, war and/or aftermath:
“Annie: Dances like Pavaliver, that child.
George Grainger: Dances like who?
Annie: Pavaliver—the Russian dancer. Don’t be so ignorant.”
—Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935)
“Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.”
—Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)
“The British blockade won the war; but the wonder is that the British blockhead did not lose it. I suppose the enemy was no wiser. War is not a sharpener of wits.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)