Russian Civil War/aftermath

Famous quotes containing the words russian, civil, war and/or aftermath:

    Grishkin is nice: her Russian eye
    Is underlined for emphasis;
    Uncorseted, her friendly lust
    Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)