“The rich feel much less need than their predecessors to account for their wealth, whether to society, to governments or to God. Their attitudes and values are not seriously challenged by anyone. The respect now shown for wealth and money-making… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
“I think, of course, all politicians have a sense of their own image, but he had it in an unusual extent. And, when I first knew him in the '50s, when I was living in Johannesburg, I thought it was… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
“I am what I am.........both as a result of people who respected me and helped me, and of those who did not respect me… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
“The rich feel much less need than their predecessors to account for their wealth, whether to society, to governments or to God. Their attitudes… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed withtalkative intellectuals, full… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation. — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
“I think, of course, all politicians have a sense of their own image, but he had it in an unusual extent. And, when I… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to .. the GCMG ('God Calls… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
