Soviet Fighter Ace

Famous quotes containing the words soviet, fighter and/or ace:

    “Nothing an interested foreigner may have to say about the Soviet Union today can compare with the scorn and fury of those who inhabit the ruin of a dream.”
    —Christopher Hope (b. 1944)

    “A pleasant smell of frying sausages
    Attacks the sense, along with an old, mostly invisible
    Photograph of what seems to be girls lounging around
    An old fighter bomber, circa 1942 vintage.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “I do not object to Gladstone’s always having the ace of trumps up his sleeve, but only to his pretence that God had put it there.”
    —Henry Labouchere (1831–1912)