“In politics, where everything romantic and sentimental is folly, the converse is usually considered true, and every brutality is thought sound sense” — William Bolitho Politics Copy Share Image
“All these outposts were broken in,and that which in other histories would have counted as three victories did not delay the progress… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“Restated constructively, the end of the adventure already drags the course of the man; he (Cagliostro) is in love with satiety. But… — William Bolitho Adventure Copy Share Image
“The adventurer, by minimum definition, is an individualist. The life of adventure is an unsocial game; therefore in direct contrast with the… — William Bolitho Adventure Copy Share Image
“In its greatest moments, memory seems to desert human beings ; only tiny ordinary events leave clear detailed trace. Probably none at… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“The historic moment is always simple and brief: it belongs to one man and one will alone, without possibility (if it be… — William Bolitho History Copy Share Image
“Yet, feeling his way, starting by the passive opposition of small thefts, stealing sausage ends and crusts of bread when Signora Squeers… — William Bolitho Casanova Copy Share Image
The profession of magician, isone of the most perilous and arduous specialisations of the imagination. On the one handthere is the hostility… — William Bolitho Career Copy Share Image
“The whole plot was a sinister drollery, the simple delight of stirring up great crowds to die and kill, of one who… — William Bolitho Fear Copy Share Image
“In his stay with the cultured old epicure, Casanova had learnt two Latin saws, which were to be for the rest of… — William Bolitho Casanova Copy Share Image
“If he had wished, he could have annexed Denmark; and ended a thousand years of war and history. But Charles had no… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“To a Bonaparte it represents what Jacob Astor meant when he said, “The first hundred thousand dollars are the most difficult.” It… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
