Siege of Madrid/uprising

Famous quotes containing the words siege of, siege and/or uprising:

    “One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.”
    —Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904)