Life Quote by David Starkey

I enjoy cooking, but stick to modern dishes.

— David Starkey

Only bad teachers lecture at a tutorial.

— David Starkey

I was born in a council house, my father left school at the age of 11, had his teeth out without anaesthetic at the…

— David Starkey

I was a complete and typical only child. I was bookish, and sport was out of the question anyway. I had read all of…

— David Starkey

I hate niceness.

— David Starkey

Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was…

— David Starkey

Churchill may have made some horrendous mistakes - Gallipoli, for one - but he had a sense of the profundity and integrity of the…

— David Starkey

We have this extraordinarily unbalanced constitution, in which we have an elected dictatorship of the prime minister.

— David Starkey

Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their studies, they…

— David Starkey

Floating the idea that every kid in Brixton can become a whizkid at information technology is dishonest.

— David Starkey

The reign of Henry VIII is the axis around which England turns.

— David Starkey

What I love doing is creating a room, with attractive paintings and colours and furnishings - very much my mother.

— David Starkey