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A J P Taylor: A master of...

A J P Taylor: A master of...

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

Source: English History...

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John Dalberg Acton: The danger is...

John Dalberg Acton: The danger is...

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to...

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George Bancroft: The prejudices of...

George Bancroft: The prejudices of...

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly...

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Theodore H White: It was like...

Theodore H White: It was like...

It was like walking through a field playing a brass tuba the day it rained gold. Everything was sitting around waiting...

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Henry Brooks Adams: No man likes...

Henry Brooks Adams: No man likes...

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it...

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Henry Brooks Adams: Power is poison....

Henry Brooks Adams: Power is poison....

Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Source: The...

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Jacob Bronowski: By the worldly...

Jacob Bronowski: By the worldly...

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The more we...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The more we...

The more we know, the better we forgive. Whoe'er feels deeply, feels for all that live.

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The success of...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The success of...

The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.

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Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: It is with...

Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: It is with...

It is with enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except with reiterated efforts, and often at...

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Edith Hamilton: To be able...

Edith Hamilton: To be able...

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.

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Meridel Le Sueur: They never die,...

Meridel Le Sueur: They never die,...

They never die, who have the future in them.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations...

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Napoleon Bonaparte: Ability is of...

Napoleon Bonaparte: Ability is of...

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Source: In Instant Quotation...

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Napoleon Bonaparte: It is the...

Napoleon Bonaparte: It is the...

It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.

Source: In Correct...

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Benjamin L Hooks: A good history...

Benjamin L Hooks: A good history...

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a...

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Patricia Meyer Spacks: Poring over fragments...

Patricia Meyer Spacks: Poring over fragments...

Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill...

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Patricia Meyer Spacks: The clich? that...

Patricia Meyer Spacks: The clich? that...

The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women...

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Pearl Buck: All things are...

Pearl Buck: All things are...

All things are possible until they are proved impossible -- and even the impossible may only be so, as of...

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Pearl Buck: Sometimes I would...

Pearl Buck: Sometimes I would...

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a...

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Ralph Ellison: If the word...

Ralph Ellison: If the word...

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and...

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