No people in the world other than the English would have…

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

— LeVar Burton

“Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.”

— Margaret Dilloway

Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue.

— Gloria Naylor

The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to…

— Dale Carnegie

The plain, unvarnished truth is that public education is a shoddy, fraudulent piece of goods sold t to the public at an astronomical price.…

— Samuel Blumenfeld

The plain, unvarnished truth is, that every one of us needs the accountability that comes from formal, regular, intimate relationships with other godly people.

— Wayne Mack

“That's what we do. Embellish. Decorate. Unvarnished truth has only limited appeal. Some events are a joy to recall, but others are best modified,…

— Linda Gillard

Ever since the Reformation, the case of legislation confining Catholics had been constructed primarily to protect a nervously Protestant against what was assumed to…

— Linda Colley

“The period of which I write was an overshadowed one in British history, and especially in the history of the northern provinces. War was…

— Charlotte Brontë

Virtually every war fought since the Act of Union had gone badly at some stage, but before 1783 none had ended in defeat. Nor…

— Linda Colley

Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was…

— David Starkey

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

— Linda Colley

Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually…

— David Cannadine

Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been…

— Simon Schama

We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines…

— Gordon Brown