“Ritzonia" was the epithet coined by Bernard Bernson, who sold Italian pictures to American millionaires, to describe the unreal, mortifying sameness of their luxury. "Ritzonia," he wrote in 1909, "carries its inmates like a wishing carpet from place to place,… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“At present", Keynes said in 1926, "everything is politics, and nothing policies.” — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“Instead of using their vastly increased material and technical resources to build a wonder-city, they built slums; and they thought it right and advisable to build slums because slums, on the test of private enterprise, "paid", whereas the wonder-city would, they thought, have been an act of foolish extravagance, which would, in the imbecile idiom of the financial fashion, have… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share
“Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.” — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“Ritzonia" was the epithet coined by Bernard Bernson, who sold Italian pictures to American millionaires, to describe the unreal, mortifying sameness of their luxury.… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“He was sceptical about the value of almost all work, save for the pleasure it gives the worker,' reported Virginia Woolf. 'He works only… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness. — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does not rest on discrimination, that penalises people who discriminate, or… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“The first chap we said was loafing, until he died. That's nearly always the verdict on a sailing ship, anyway. A man is invariably… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to devise clever,… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“He never sat an examination in economics: his knowledge came from pondering problems and discussing them as much as from book-learning.” — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“The science of public happiness was how Keynes saw his work as an economist.” — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
