Famous quotes containing the words world, war and/or british:
“They have gone about the world like wind,
But little time had they to pray
For whom the hangmans rope was spun,
And what, God help us, could they save?”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“It is a war against the pines, the only real Aroostook or Penobscot war.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“We may be scum, but at least were la crème de la scum.”
—Report on the British royal family. quoted in Sunday Times (London, Nov. 13, 1988)