Culture Quote by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Trump wants to be the first American tsar. With his hero worship of Putin, his admiration for the apparent omnipotence of the Kremlin, schoolboyish…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." --- Edward Gibbon”

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Every Russian emperor from Peter the Great to Stalin and Putin knows a leader and his security agencies must never be parted. His safety…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“Sex fills a few hours of our lives yet those precious minutes count for more than months and years”

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“Iraq was already in the grip of a bloody insurgency against British rule. Churchill therefore called a conference in Cairo to hand over a…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I don't think Jerusalem should be controlled 100% by religious people of any denomination, sect, or religion - even my own.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

The memoirs of the Grand Duchess Olga are an entertaining record for anyone interested in the imperial family's home life during the last years…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I am a passionate nonfinisher. Life is too short, and there are too many great books to read, so if I lose interest or…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“Necessity is very often the mother of romance.”

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

There is a view of Russian exceptionalism, that they are a unique civilisation, a view right since Ivan the Terrible that Russia is a…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

The political lives of tyrants play out human affairs with a special intensity: the death of a democratic leader long after his retirement is…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

If only all straight weddings could be somehow gay-ified.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore