You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action. — William Bolitho Action Copy Share Image
“To every sweetheart he (Casanova) gave himself exclusively; he had so many selves.” — William Bolitho Casanova Copy Share Image
“It is when the pirates count their booty, that they become mere thieves.” — William Bolitho Pirates Copy Share Image
It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves. — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social — William Bolitho Adventure Copy Share Image
We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution. — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“People who are not enjoying themselves very much always most dislike risking their lives.” — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“In short, she (Seraphina) had luck and judgment, but no morals.” — William Bolitho Character Copy Share Image
“Like most people of his temperament, though sociable, he (Napolean) disliked company in which he would have to appear merely as one… — William Bolitho Business Copy Share Image
A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an… — William Bolitho Auras Copy Share Image
“Where he (Alexander) came the inhabitants either accepted him with roses and wine, or fought and were beaten. He preferred the latter.” — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“He fought with Augustus and Peter, not with Russia or Poland. He aimed at full apologies, not conquests.” — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“But the better the training, the greater and more detailed the preparation, the more men are at the mercy of the impossible.” — William Bolitho Compassion Copy Share Image
“Here, in Egypt, the morning of Alexander’s adventure ends. Henceforth he is divided; Alexandria is his first possession and he is no… — William Bolitho Adventure Copy Share Image
“And he loved her—with the exalted and romantic intensity that a social climber gives to a woman whom he thinks superior to… — William Bolitho Climber Copy Share Image
The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by… — William Bolitho Life Copy Share Image
“Such is the arithmetic of adventure, in which two and two no more make only four than that Euclid rules in the… — William Bolitho Adventure Copy Share Image
“But not of course in the same condition as heretofore. There is a miraculous bonus in the hunt for the miraculous, as… — William Bolitho Miracle Copy Share Image
“Gendemen, I have resolved never to make an unjust war, but to end a just one only with the utter ruin of… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“He (Cicero) made Catiline and his conspiracy actually simple; the man himself had the courage to sit in front of him and… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is… — William Bolitho Crafts Copy Share Image
“They, whether steel kings or Bonapartes, cannot, after a certain age, endure solitude. For it is the solitude, even though strictly relative… — William Bolitho Solitude Copy Share Image
An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope… — William Bolitho Adventure Copy Share Image
“He had come to prospect the intentions of Charles towards the French and the Anglo-Austrian coalition, and even if Charles had thrown… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“The truth is that he (Casanova) had ceased subtly to be an adventurer to become a noisy scoundrel, or if that is… — William Bolitho Adventure Copy Share Image
“Napoleon taught the world, or perhaps only satisfied a latent longing and gave it shape and hope, to want to be rewarded,… — William Bolitho Hope Copy Share Image
“And so begins the strangest campaign in military history : a competent general and a seasoned army of eighty thousand men chased… — William Bolitho Best man Copy Share Image
“Napoleon fell into the situation that is the misery of many men of action, and lost the power of enjoying things directly,… — William Bolitho Food Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless this was the problem Casanova solved. His prime secret is in his own words. “ I have always believed that when… — William Bolitho Casanova Copy Share Image
The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin. — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming. — William Bolitho Charm Copy Share Image
“The sacrilegious moment had come for counting and preserving; and the gods are insulted. Everything after this moment goes mysteriously awry, as… — William Bolitho Sacrilegious Copy Share Image
