Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or strife:
“Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.”
—Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)
“There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten—before the end is told—even if there happens to be any end to it.”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)