Famous quotes containing the words english, civil, war and/or winter:
“The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.”
—Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)
“Either war is obsolete or men are.”
—R. Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983)
“The sky seemed so small that winter day,
A dirty light on a lifeless world,
Contracted like a withered stick.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)