Famous quotes containing the words unknown, battle and/or brunanburh:
“All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask!”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.”
—Peggy Noonan (b. 1950)
“Brake the shield-wall,
Hewed the lindenwood,
Hacked the battleshield,”
—Unknown. Battle of Brunanburh (l. 11–13)