An admiral red, whose only notion, (A butterfly poised on a pigtailed ocean) Is of the peruked sea whose swell Breaks on the flowerless rocks of Hell.

-Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa
  Fa c° ade,'En Famille'.

Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. In this country it is considered a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others.

-Voltaire pseudonym of  Fran c° ois Marie Arouet
  Of England. Reference to the execution of Admiral Byng following his failure to engage the French at Menorca,1757. Candide, ch.23.