All William Manchester Quotes
- The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses. Adopting
- An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome. Awesome
- He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men… Arrogant
- Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for… Course
- Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself. Abysmally
- They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have baffled the men… Among
- I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me. Fear
- His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on… American
- He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great… Bible
- His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. Douglas
- It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a… Churchillian
- It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bond between events… Administration
- To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist. Doubt
- I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an… All
- A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds. Failing
- Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if… Abstraction
- The sum of a million facts is not the truth. Facts
- But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society. Act
- He was a great thundering paradox of a man. Great
- As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action. Action
- I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at… Darkness