History Quote by Sybille Bedford

“It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.” quote by Sybille Bedford — Download Open image

“It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.”

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I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand.

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“Architecture without pain, art looked at in undiluted pleasure, enjoyment without anxiety, compunction, heartache: there is no beggar woman in the church door, no ragged child or sore animal in the square. The water is safe and the wallet is inside the pocket. There will be no missed plane connection. We are in a country where the curable ills are…

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I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is…

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“A devastating, a traumatic defeat, [to Germany] and the Danes might well have fallen into a Treaty of Versailles mentality. Mysteriously, they did not.…

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public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.

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All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.

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All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.

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