--- title: "4 Patrick Marnham Quotes - Famous Biographer" description: "British writer... | Patrick Marnham is an English writer, journalist and biographer. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Literature in 1988...." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-patrick-marnham-67187.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Patrick Marnham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-patrick-marnham-67187.jpg) # Patrick Marnham (1942) Biographer **4** quotes in **8** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Patrick Marnham is a biographer. ## Quick Facts About Patrick Marnham Born November 30, 1942 Profession Biographer ## About Patrick Marnham British writer... \| Patrick Marnham is an English writer, journalist and biographer. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Literature in 1988. He is primarily known for his travel writing and for his biographies, where he has covered subjects as diverse as Diego Rivera, Georges Simenon, Jean Moulin and Mary ## Quotes by Patrick Marnham > [“The people of North America have little idea of religion, but they have strict public morality. The Latin people are without morality…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-marnham/the-people-of-north-america-have-little-idea-of-religion-but-they/) [Patrick Marnham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-marnham/) [North america](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/north-america/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b97/patrick-marnham-67187_north-america_the-people-of-north-america-have-little_800446.jpg) > [“That was the end of my adventure in Central America. By the lakeshore in Granada, Nicaragua, I decided to turn for home.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-marnham/that-was-the-end-of-my-adventure-in-central-america-by-the-lakeshore/) [Patrick Marnham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-marnham/) [Adventure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adventure/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ee/patrick-marnham-67187_adventure_that-was-the-end-of-my-adventure-in-cent_2438394.jpg) > [“Like a voice crying in the wilderness, we beg members of the foreign press to earn their wages honestly, and suggest that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-marnham/like-a-voice-crying-in-the-wilderness-we-beg-members-of-the-foreign/) [Patrick Marnham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-marnham/) [El salvador](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/el-salvador/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ea/patrick-marnham-67187_el-salvador_like-a-voice-crying-in-the-wilderness-we_2726932.jpg) > [“The people who hitched to Katmandu (and are doubtlessly still doing so, despite the usual reports of official prohibitions) seem to me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-marnham/the-people-who-hitched-to-katmandu-and-are-doubtlessly-still-doing-so/) [Patrick Marnham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-marnham/) [Rule the world](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/rule-the-world/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/401/patrick-marnham-67187_rule-the-world_the-people-who-hitched-to-katmandu-and-a_2745875.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-marnham/#itemlist", "name": "Patrick Marnham Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The people of North America have little idea of religion, but they have strict public morality. 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They are ill-suited to play the role which they are conventionally given; that of proletarian playboys, outriders of a modern sub-culture, who intend, mainly through will-power, to end injustice and rule the world. 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