“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
“If he had wished, he could have annexed Denmark; and ended a thousand years of war and history. But Charles had no weaknesses; now and thereafter he was behaving out of a book. The first maxim of Alexanderism is never… — 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 is the… — William Bolitho 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 of Charles… — William Bolitho 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 of God… — William Bolitho 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
The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin. — William Bolitho 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 aura of… — 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 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 married, supported… — William Bolitho 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 of the… — 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 the hostility… — William Bolitho 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, by himself.… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves. — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“In politics, where everything romantic and sentimental is folly, the converse is usually considered true, and every brutality is thought sound sense” — 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 truly ripe)… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
