Famous quotes containing the words conquest and/or fleet:
“What girl could fail to make a conquest who collapsed at a man’s feet in the moonlight?”
—John L. Balderston (1899–1954)
“On the middle of that quiet floor
sits a fleet of small black ships,
square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
their spars like burned matchsticks.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)