British empire Quote by Cornelia Otis Skinner

“Society in shipwreck is a comfort to all.”

— Publius Syrus

“None of us is immune to shipwreck. Come, beckons the fatal shore: come and die on my white sands, it said. And we do.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“In order to avoid shipwreck, wise people usually appoint one captain to navigate the ship.”

— moolesh.k.dindoyal

“The captain of HMS Terror often thought that he knew nothing about the future - other than that his ship and Erebus would never…

— Dan Simmons

“there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as…

— Joseph Conrad

“I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.”

— Ovid

“They sat side by side, sad and weary, like shipwrecked sailors on a deserted shore.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“He was a seaman, but he was a wanderer, too, while most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life. Their…

— Joseph Conrad

“He found himself in the strange predicament all sailors share: essentially he belonged neither to the land nor to the sea. Possibly a man…

— Yukio Mishima

Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.

— Publilius Syrus

“A ship doesn't look quite the same from inside, does it? A wise sailor,' Robert said, fanning his arms, 'will one time stand upon…

— Diane Carey

“There were no romantic ships passing in the night. It was more like dinghies in the dark: Awkward, slow and hard to handle, quickly…

— Candace Vianna