Famous quotes containing the words world, war and/or british:
“My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)
“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)
“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)