Quote by Ben Macintyre Download Open image ““If this is Upper Silesia, one wonders what must Lower Silesia be like,”” — Ben Macintyre ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“If this is Upper Silesia, what on earth must Lower Silesia be like?” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I locate Essential Spain at last - the cruel winds, the grinding poverty, the unforgiving landscape. It could be Wales.” — william donaldson Copy Share Image
“We are in the world where the longing mountains are the most grounded.” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“Few landscapes have been so deeply known. And fewer still have been so lightly inhabited.” — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“It is not any common earth, Water or wood or air, But Merlin’s Isle of Gramarye That you and I will fare.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“...and the country is like a great unfolded mantle with a green velvet cape bordered with a fringe of silver.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I always thought there were like seven continents.” Crazzee was kind of an expert in geography. One of her ex-boyfriends had a large map… — Buan Boonaca Copy Share Image
“Wales is an enormous country - or it was until somebody crumpled it up.” — Gee Williams Copy Share Image
“Only the clever hills are not jealous of the high mountains! There is no happiness in the high altitudes.” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“I have been in several provinces of that kingdom. In some, one half of the people are fools and madmen; in some, they are too artful; in others, again, they are, in general, either very good–natured or very brutal; while in others, they affect to be witty, and in all, their ruling passion is love, the next is slander, and… — Voltaire Copy Share
“When told to do something, he tended to “obey not the order which he had actually been given by a superior, but rather the… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
“Martin Luther had written “Know, Christian, that next to the devil thou hast no enemy more cruel, more venomous and violent than a true… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
“The policemen agreed they were living with a most peculiar fellow. One moment he was reading classical literature in the original French and quoting… — Ben MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“In a brilliant lecture written in 1944, C. S. Lewis described the fatal British obsession with the “inner ring,” the belief that somewhere, just… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret. — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
“Before becoming headmaster of Eton, Claude Elliott had taught history at Cambridge University, despite an ingrained distrust of academics and an aversion to intellectual… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret. — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
“The word most consistently used to describe Kim Philby was "charm", that intoxicating, beguiling and occasionally lethal English quality.” — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
“Professor J. B. S. Haldane was one of the most celebrated scientists in Britain. A pioneering and broad-ranging thinker, he developed a mathematical theory… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
“Far from being repelled by the duplicity around him, Elliott felt ever more drawn to the game of skulduggery and double cross. The Venlo… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
“CAPTAIN RAMIREZ: “Ootunondumi rabo Caaguazu.” FRANCISCO: “Bokinmaginum sinking.” RAMIREZ: “Help.” — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
