Quotes
Quotes about Flags
A character in Evelyn Waugh's Put Out More Flags said that the difference between prewar and postwar life was that, prewar, if one thing went wrong the day was ruined; postwar, if one thing went right the day would be made. America is a prewar country, psychologically unprepared for one thing to go wrong.
His heart had dropped, shattered like a cold stale pastry dropped on to the kitchen flags
What in God's name is the difference between a language and a dialect? I'll tell you. A language waves flags and is blown up by politicians. A dialect keeps to things, things, things, street smells and street noises, life
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
This is the song of the wind as it came, Tossing the flags of the Nations to flame.
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top.
