Lusitania Quotes

He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania. (Terry Pratchett)
Proud over the rest, with splendid wealth arrayed, As crown on, Europe's head The Lusitania reign, Where the land ends and seas begins. View quote
Luís de Camões
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but truth is something that arises out of the relationship between language and the world. If I look at a picture alone, it tells me nothing. In the previous incarnation of this lecture, I was going to put a picture of the Titanic and the Lusitania up on the screen. They look very, very similar - four smokestacks. They look almost identical. You look at either picture, true or false? Neither. Put a caption at the bottom of one of them, that changes everything. If you put in the caption, "This is the Lusitania," and the picture is a picture of the Lusitania, then the caption is true. However, the picture itself is neither true nor false. It's just a picture. View quote
Errol Morris
Proud over the rest, with splendid wealth arrayed, As crown to this wide empire, Europe's head, Fair Lusitania smiles, the western bound, Whose verdant breast the rolling waves surround. View quote
Luís de Camões