Manchester Liners/peacetime Operations 1945-1968

Famous quotes containing the words manchester, peacetime and/or operations:

    “The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    “The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.”
    —José Bergamín (1895–1983)

    “Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)