Winged Victory Quotes

“Grab is barbarous, and we are breeding barbarians by frightening people with poverty and insecurity and treating education as a training to compete instead of to live.”
― V.M. Yeates, Winged Victory

“Tom thought sometimes that it was even more heroic, being a coward, to follow a hero into his scrapes than to be the hero. Heroes followed their temperaments; cowards sometimes overcame theirs.”
― V.M. Yeates, Winged Victory

“​That was the worst of being in the flying service: you were always in the front line, even in England.”
― V.M. Yeates, Winged Victory

“He was back among them, though not, thank God, forced to hide in the earth from their terror, and now they were a multitude so clamorous-powerful, that men were pismires to them. The earth was theirs; they ploughed it, they manured it with the flesh and watered it with the blood of their slaves; and all that came of their husbandry was a stink.”
― V.M. Yeates, Winged Victory