Quote by Erik Larson

“For those passengers who did feel unsettled by the German warning, Cunard offered comforting words. Wrote passenger Ambrose B. Cross, “From the very first…

— Erik Larson

The Lusitania is important, of course, because this is where Germany began its maritime campaign using this brand-new weapon. We have to appreciate how…

— Erik Larson

I didn't know anything about the Lusitania. I started reading because I had nothing else in my plate. And as soon as I start…

— Erik Larson

I do think hubris played a role here as well, the belief that the Lusitania was too big and too fast to ever be…

— Erik Larson

It was a civilian ship, and the Lusitania could outrun any submarine. So this population of people was very confident that Cunard and the…

— Erik Larson

“We'd be fools not to ride this strange torpedo all the way out to the end.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

“She met the Lusitanian cooks, a husband and wife team whose passionate screams in Portuguese during their fights and lovemaking were legendary among the…

— Meljean Brook

“You have to tell this ship to turn around!" He had a feeling she was serious, so he managed not to laugh. Well,he tried-and…

— Johanna Lindsey

“They both looked out at the water, then back to each other. “Boat it is,” they said at the same time. “But not Thomas’s…

— Donna Kauffman

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“And you know what happens when a ship gets too many rats on board? It sinks. That's what. I wondered if a ship had…

— David Wong

“Her laughing was like a wave in the sea, when it landed on you it made you laugh as well.”

— Stephen Kelman