Quotes with shipwreck

  • The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.

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  • Francis Bacon Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Charles de Gaulle Old age is a shipwreck.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Ben Jonson Shakespeare, in a play, brought in a number of men saying they had suffered shipwreck in Bohemia, where there is no sea by some 100 miles.
    Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Publilius Syrus Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Joseph Conrad The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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