Quote by William Manchester

“Tolerate the dull: they too have their story”

— Max Ehrman

“Ox, at an early age a Chinese genius gazes at the path that lies ahead and reaches for a wine jar," Master Li said.…

— Barry Hughart

“In many ways Churchill remained a nineteenth-century man, and by no means a common man. He fit the mold of what Henry James called…

— William Manchester

First, there was Confucius. Then, the sayings of Chairman Mao. And now the pithy, ironic, and humorous insights of Ai Weiwei. I thoroughly enjoyed…

— Jerome A. Cohen

“Churchill was an articulatory genius." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]”

— R. Alan Woods

“China reminds me most of America at its own moment of transformation—the period that Mark Twain and Charles Warner named the Gilded Age, when…

— Evan Osnos

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

— Anonymous

“He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.”

— Samuel Foote

“The reasoning of the Ming and Qing states for opposing international trade is by now familiar: the fear of creative destruction.”

— Daron Acemoğlu

“It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should…

— Christopher Hitchens

What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was a terrible…

— John Lithgow

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw…

— David Low