Famous quotes containing the words eighteenth-century english proverb, eighteenth-century english and/or english:
“Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.”
—Eighteenth-century English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)
“Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.”
—Eighteenth-century English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)
“Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)