Andrew Marr

“What drives history is the human ambition to alter one’s condition to match one’s hopes.’3”

— Andrew Marr

“Stephen Oppenheimer of Oxford University, a specialist in DNA studies, says: ‘Every non-African in Australia, America, Siberia, Iceland, Europe, China, and India…

— Andrew Marr

“Science strides ahead; politics stumbles around like a drunk. We saw it in the age of discovery and the age of empire,…

— Andrew Marr

“So although they might stare at us and ask, 'Who are these alien people?' We could reply, 'We are you, What you…

— Andrew Marr

“The death-tolls during the last years of the Qing dynasty and in China’s forty years of non-Communist republican government are impossible to…

— Andrew Marr

“Opium had been prescribed as laudanum, a liquid ‘medicine’ that was also very popular among working-class men and women struggling to adapt…

— Andrew Marr

“Siberia is also a rich source of iron, tin, gold and other metals, and possesses the world’s deepest lake, Baikal.”

— Andrew Marr

“Leonardo esquadrinhou as ruas, e os seus blocos de notas, para encontrar modelos para os discípulos. Quando o prior se queixou do…

— Andrew Marr

Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.

— Andrew Marr

My big toe alone is the size of Yorkshire.

— Andrew Marr

Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.

— Andrew Marr

One aspect of politics too little acknowledged is that besides being jolly serious and all that, it is also a hugely enjoyable…

— Andrew Marr

“We humans have been brilliantly clever... almost as clever as we think we are, though not, perhaps, as wise.”

— Andrew Marr

My kids wouldn't dream of buying a newspaper - and we are a newspaper household.

— Andrew Marr

Interviews, and hence interviewers, are there to help shed light, and to let viewers judge for themselves. We are not judges, juries,…

— Andrew Marr

“Beethoven is said, however, to have torn out the title page in protest when Napoleon crowned himself emperor, and retitled it the…

— Andrew Marr

“Todavia, Gengis Khan mudou o mundo. Ajudou involuntariamente a Europa cristã a erguer-se acima do Império Muçulmano e pôs termo a um…

— Andrew Marr

“It is a sequence familiar in the capitals of other great empires: the extreme inequality created as loot from abroad pours in;…

— Andrew Marr

“When they finally went home, they left behind an unstable, unhappy part of the world, with borders like wounds scored across it.”

— Andrew Marr

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

— Andrew Marr

“Ludwig van Beethoven had originally called his third symphony The Bonaparte.”

— Andrew Marr

“The left tended to think people’s private lives should be their own, even if they made choices traditional Christian society regarded as…

— Andrew Marr

“A slight boy with reddish hair, almost naked and clutching a bow, was inching his way on his belly towards a small…

— Andrew Marr

Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will -…

— Andrew Marr

“In 1799 Princess Louisa of Prussia wrote to Jenner asking for ‘vaccine’ matter (the word comes from the Latin for ‘cow’),”

— Andrew Marr