"Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London…" — Peter Ackroyd
"Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody."
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67 Quotes by Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd has 67 quotes on this site.
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Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
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I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
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I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and…
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Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work…
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The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
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Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.
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Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.
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It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body…
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London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made,…
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Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just…
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No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave…
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I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead…
— Thomas Jefferson
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You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that…
— Charles Dickens
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I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer kneeling on the floor praying fervently to God. I was most deeply moved by the way…
— Eberhard Bethge
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If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
— Paul Eldridge
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As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War…
— Abraham Clark
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Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.
— Abraham Clark
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Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope…
— Mark Twain
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They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison,…
— Nellie Bly
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Marriage is a call to die [to self]... Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death,…
— R. Kent Hughes
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I made my own house be my gallows.
— Dante Alighieri
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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them…
— Charles Lamb
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