Alfred Leslie Rowse Quotes
- I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green…
- Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds…
- If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen.
- One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.
- A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the…
- This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.
- Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.
- History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.