Century Quote by Margery Allingham Download Open image “It was a little skirmish across a century.” — Margery Allingham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Century Littles
“Launching a nice little war to divert national attention was a gambit no less appealing to nineteenth-century politicians than it is to their present-day… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. — Horace Copy Share Image
“The wars of the mid-nineteenth century had been short, and they had been won by the state that got the most men in the… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“In the space of a single year, a crumbling rural village had sprouted an army town, like a great parasitical growth. The former peacetime… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
It was a ludicrous, insane situation in which modern fighting men, possessed all of the highly destructive engines of war, were ordered to attack… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They had engaged in what could not be called treatment or even discussion, but open combat, the two of them a microcosm of the… — Kathy Hepinstall Copy Share Image
...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries. — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat. — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know,… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
“THE main thing to remember in autobiography, I have always thought, is not to let any damned modesty creep in to spoil the story.… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
the relationship between the two men was something of a miracle in itself. It was a cordiality based, apparently, on complete non-comprehension cemented by… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
“No.' He spoke with a tenderness unexpected in him. 'No, lady, no. Put that clean out of your mind. That dear chap and his… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
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