A new generation does not appear every 30 years. It appears when writers of the same age join in a common revolt against the fathers and when, in the process of adopting a new lifestyle, they find theirownmodels and spokesmen.

-Cowley, Malcolm
Quoted in the NewYork Times, 29 Mar1989.

Homosexuality wasthebadge oftheupperclass and the sign of a revolt against it; and it is small wonder that someone locked for a lifetime in this impossible contradiction should end up with cirrhosis of the liver.

-Eagleton,Terry
  Review of Sean French's Patrick Hamilton: a Life (1993). In the London Review of Books, 2 Dec.

Louis XVI: Is this a revolt? Duke of Rochefoucauld-Liancourt: No, sir, it's a revolution.

-Louis XVI
  Exchange after the fall of the Bastille,14  Jul. Quoted in F Dreyfus La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (1903), ch.2, section 3. King   of   France   (from   1795).    He   fled   to   Belgium   in   1791, proclaiming  himself  Regent  for  Louis  XVII  in 1793  and  King  in 1795.  On  the  fall  of  Napoleon,  he  landed  at  Calais  (1814)  and began  a  severe  rule,  until  Napoleon's  return  for  the  Hundred Days (1815). His rule was subsequently more moderate.

   Soaring through wider zones that pricked his scars With memory of the old revolt from Awe, He reached the middle height, and at the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank. Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.

-Meredith, George
  Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth,'Lucifer in Starlight'.

Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?

-Milton,John
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.1, l.33.