Douches Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

“Keep your head down, think small, look after yourself: these constituted the lessons of Leopold. The spirit, once comprehensively crushed, does not recover easily.…

— Michela Wrong

“he believed with all his heart that Leopold’s system of rule constituted a unique form of evil. People in England’s ruling circles, therefore, could…

— Adam Hochschild

“He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had he been…

— Virginia Woolf

“those who made the greatest fortunes from the Scramble for Africa, like Leopold, were often men who had fortunes to begin with.”

— Adam Hochschild

“But though, to landsmen in general, the native inhabitants of the seas have ever regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial and repelling; though we know…

— Herman Melville

“His desire was as deep and boundless as the sea, but when the tide receded, the rocks of shame and guilt thrust up as…

— George R.R. Martin

“He and his supporters never doubted that if only Britain were to act, it could force Leopold to mend his ways or could wrest…

— Adam Hochschild

“But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured.…

— Charles Dickens

“as the wind howled on, and the sea leaped, and the ship groaned and dived, and yet steadfastedly shot her red hell further and…

— Herman Melville

“These attributes, in spite of poverty and the strict integrity which shut him out from the more worldly successes, attracted to him many admirable…

— Louisa May Alcott

“A man, a life - it was barely worth mentioning. The Visigoths had destroyed the Romans, and had themselves been destroyed by the Muslims.…

— Philipp Meyer

“Horace was a nice little guy who looked like one of his own baboons; he turned me over to a Doctor Vargas who was…

— Robert A. Heinlein