“Still ailing, Wind? Wilt be appeased or no?”
Robert Browning
“Oh what can ail thee, wretched wight, / Alone and palely loitering; / The sedge is withered from the lake, / And no birds sing.”
John Keats
“Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal”
William Allen White
“When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.”
Queen Victoria
“Successful politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.”
Walter Lippmann
“I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.”
Margaret Thatcher
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last”
Winston Churchill
