Capital Quote by Edmund Morris

“Violence, once committed, lingered behind and subtly worked on those sensitive to its ugliness.”

— Christine Feehan

“the promise implicit in the veiled eyes, the long, flexible mouth, the curiously vital hands.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“But it was impossible to make any impression upon the middling people and the working labouring poor. Their fears were predominant over all their…

— Daniel Defoe

“Something in his face deeply moved me. It was the face of a man who would commit murder and throw away his life for…

— George Orwell

“It was those eyes as much as anything that had earned him his reputation as a man to be reckoned with. When he stared…

— Julia Quinn

“The thing that struck me was his intensity. Whatever he was interested in he would generally carry to an irrational extreme." Jobs had honed…

— Walter Isaacson

“When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more hideous crimes have been committed in the…

— C.P. Snow

“It was the logic of retaliation that created the constitutional state. The enshrined promise of an eye for an eye, the sinner burning in…

— Jo Nesbo

“you seemed far too familiar with violence. It was too easy for you. The way you drew your gun ... You'd had far too…

— Julia Quinn

“We must subdue our detestable habit of shaking hands with prosperous rascals and fawning upon the merely rich.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“Strange as it may seem, within plain sight of this same house, looking down from its commanding height upon it, was the Capitol. The…

— Solomon Northup

“It was the oddest of political prejudices that wealth didn’t come from work, but rather from something else, a something never really described, but…

— Tom Clancy