Prison/history

Famous quotes containing the words prison and/or history:

“Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums ... who find prison so soul-destroying.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)

“The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)