Great man Quote by Jeffrey Archer

“Every epic collapse, the provost believed, could be traced back to a single moment—a chance meeting, a bad decision, an indiscreet glance.”

— Dan Brown

“He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Victor Hugo: ‘No power on Earth can stop an idea whose time has come.”

— Sanjaya Baru

“The World. Hugo had once told Nathaniel in Will's presence, was made by many men, but shaped by few. The important thing was to…

— Anonymous

“In his preparations for the battle of Waterloo Napoleon contrived to produce a grand slam of mistakes. It is surprising that his great name…

— Frank McLynn

“It is a dangerous thing to have the same men in both the prophecy and the history business.”

— Stacy Schiff

“Sometimes he remembered having heard how soldiers under fire in the trenches, and having nothing to do, try hard to find some occupation the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Pierre’s heart thrilled to these words as he gazed with shining eyes into the mason’s face. He listened without interrupting or asking any questions,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Man will be informed that Day of what he sent ahead and kept back. Rather, man, against himself, will be a witness.”

— Anonymous

“But Pierre had been born with a shrewdness that made him early aware that a failure to believe that human events were ordered by…

— Louis Auchincloss

“Napoleon was accustomed to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rending details, cipher by cipher; ciphers mattered little to him, provided…

— Victor Hugo