Children Quote by Adam Hochschild

“He was a man born out of his time - a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher,…

— Robert E Howard

“Stanley went on, "highly dangerous, fanatical and additictied to violence'- Blimey Fred, is it your mother writing this? They seem to know you so…

— Jonathan Stroud

“I concluded all the same from this first evening that his [Morel's] must be a vile nature, that he would not shrink from any…

— Marcel Proust

“And all the woe that moved him so That he gave that bitter cry the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats None knew so…

— Oscar Wilde

“and being as wicked as any man who ever lived, he exploited his advantage to the full.”

— Winston S. Churchill

“The paralytic on his couch can have if he wants them wider experiences than Stanley slaughtering the savages, the two roomed cottage may enclose…

— Alice James

“Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The banker Sir Chris deserved a fuss made of him because he was rich and played tennis and ate expensive organic cheese which his…

— Chris Child

“And now I know the extent of Sterling's bravery. It was narrowly focused, but it was pure and unadulterated. I twas a kind of…

— Kevin Powers

“he explains that tragedy’s most cruel lesson is not that human beings are flawed, or that fate can be unkind, but that no one…

— Jean Hegland

“But people didn't have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in the city…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective amid so…

— Joseph Heller