“In short, she (Seraphina) had luck and judgment, but no morals.” — William Bolitho Character Copy Share Image
“People who are not enjoying themselves very much always most dislike risking their lives.” — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin. — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social — William Bolitho Adventure Copy Share Image
We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution. — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves. — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“It is when the pirates count their booty, that they become mere thieves.” — William Bolitho Pirates Copy Share Image
“The adventurer, by minimum definition, is an individualist. The life of adventure is an unsocial game; therefore in direct contrast with the… — William Bolitho Adventure Copy Share Image
“Restated constructively, the end of the adventure already drags the course of the man; he (Cagliostro) is in love with satiety. But… — William Bolitho Adventure Copy Share Image
“In politics, where everything romantic and sentimental is folly, the converse is usually considered true, and every brutality is thought sound sense” — William Bolitho Politics Copy Share Image
“The sacrilegious moment had come for counting and preserving; and the gods are insulted. Everything after this moment goes mysteriously awry, as… — William Bolitho Sacrilegious Copy Share Image
General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming. — William Bolitho Charm Copy Share Image
“All these outposts were broken in,and that which in other histories would have counted as three victories did not delay the progress… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“He fought with Augustus and Peter, not with Russia or Poland. He aimed at full apologies, not conquests.” — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“In his stay with the cultured old epicure, Casanova had learnt two Latin saws, which were to be for the rest of… — William Bolitho Casanova Copy Share Image
“The whole plot was a sinister drollery, the simple delight of stirring up great crowds to die and kill, of one who… — William Bolitho Fear Copy Share Image
The profession of magician, isone of the most perilous and arduous specialisations of the imagination. On the one handthere is the hostility… — William Bolitho Career Copy Share Image
“To a Bonaparte it represents what Jacob Astor meant when he said, “The first hundred thousand dollars are the most difficult.” It… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“If he had wished, he could have annexed Denmark; and ended a thousand years of war and history. But Charles had no… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“Yet, feeling his way, starting by the passive opposition of small thefts, stealing sausage ends and crusts of bread when Signora Squeers… — William Bolitho Casanova Copy Share Image
“The historic moment is always simple and brief: it belongs to one man and one will alone, without possibility (if it be… — William Bolitho History Copy Share Image
An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope… — William Bolitho Adventure Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless this was the problem Casanova solved. His prime secret is in his own words. “ I have always believed that when… — William Bolitho Casanova Copy Share Image
“Napoleon fell into the situation that is the misery of many men of action, and lost the power of enjoying things directly,… — William Bolitho Food Copy Share Image
“And so begins the strangest campaign in military history : a competent general and a seasoned army of eighty thousand men chased… — William Bolitho Best man Copy Share Image
“Napoleon taught the world, or perhaps only satisfied a latent longing and gave it shape and hope, to want to be rewarded,… — William Bolitho Hope Copy Share Image
“The truth is that he (Casanova) had ceased subtly to be an adventurer to become a noisy scoundrel, or if that is… — William Bolitho Adventure Copy Share Image
“He had come to prospect the intentions of Charles towards the French and the Anglo-Austrian coalition, and even if Charles had thrown… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“To every sweetheart he (Casanova) gave himself exclusively; he had so many selves.” — William Bolitho Casanova Copy Share Image
You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action. — William Bolitho Action Copy Share Image
Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“And he loved her—with the exalted and romantic intensity that a social climber gives to a woman whom he thinks superior to… — William Bolitho Climber Copy Share Image
“Here, in Egypt, the morning of Alexander’s adventure ends. Henceforth he is divided; Alexandria is his first possession and he is no… — William Bolitho Adventure Copy Share Image
