Walter Lord

“Seen and unseen, the great and the unknown tumbled together in a writhing heap as the bow plunged deeper and the stern…

— Walter Lord

“Robertson called his ship the Titan; the White Star Line called its ship the Titanic. This is the story of her last…

— Walter Lord

“It is a rash man indeed who would set himself up as final arbiter on all that happened the incredible night the…

— Walter Lord

“Before the Titanic, all was quiet. Afterward all was tumult. That is why, to anybody who lived at the time, the Titanic…

— Walter Lord

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came…

— Walter Lord

“The night was a magnificent confirmation of "women and children first," yet somehow the loss rate was higher for Third Class children…

— Walter Lord

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage,…

— Walter Lord

The ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

— Walter Lord

“Gentry crept out. There, stuck in the slime a few feet away, was a huge unexploded bomb. It was about the size…

— Walter Lord

You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

— Walter Lord

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

— Walter Lord

“This was the era when gentlemen formally offered their services to "unprotected ladies" at the start of an Atlantic voyage.”

— Walter Lord

It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it…

— Walter Lord

“Overriding everything else, the Titanic also marked the end of a general feeling of confidence.”

— Walter Lord

There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed…

— Walter Lord

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor…

— Walter Lord

I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.

— Walter Lord

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.

— Walter Lord

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

— Walter Lord

“The clock in the wireless shack said 12:45 A.M. when the Titanic sent the first SOS call in history.”

— Walter Lord

“where a party of untrained English Territorials tried to hold them with a barricade of cardboard boxes.”

— Walter Lord

“The Titanic woke them up. Never again would they be quite so sure of themselves. In technology especially, the disaster was a…

— Walter Lord

“As if this wasn’t enough, word spread of a new peril. Enemy troops masquerading as refugees were said to be infiltrating the…

— Walter Lord