Famous quotes containing the words world, war and/or british:
“In this world of overrated pleasures,
Of underrated treasures.”
—Paul Madeira (b. 1904)
“The war was a mirror; it reflected man’s every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.”
—George Grosz (1893–1959)
“Gorgonised me from head to foot,
With a stony British stare.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)