Famous quotes containing the words august, world and/or war:
“Family ... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.”
—J. August Strindberg (1849–1912)
“The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“It is well that war is so terrible: we would grow too fond of it!”
—Robert E. Lee (1807–1870)