Famous quotes containing the words world and/or war:
“How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses youd find swine? The world is a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?”
—Thornton Wilder (18971975)
“The British blockade won the war; but the wonder is that the British blockhead did not lose it. I suppose the enemy was no wiser. War is not a sharpener of wits.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)