Full Face Helmets

Famous quotes containing the words full, face and/or helmets:

    “Oh! full Surrey twilight! importunate band!
    Oh! strongly adorable tennis-girl’s hand!”
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    “Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “The bugle-call to arms again sounded in my war-trained ear, the bayonets gleamed, the sabres clashed, and the Prussian helmets and the eagles of France stood face to face on the borders of the Rhine.... I remembered our own armies, my own war-stricken country and its dead, its widows and orphans, and it nerved me to action for which the physical strength had long ceased to exist, and on the borrowed force of love and memory, I strove with might and main.”
    —Clara Barton (1821–1912)