Allan Massie Quotes
- Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.
- Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
- We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.
- All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to…
- It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps…