18th century Quote by William Manchester
![“The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.” quote by William Manchester](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/40a/william-manchester-18393_18th-century_the-colors-of-the-underwater-rock-are-as_1849863.jpg)
“The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.”
“The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.”
![“It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.” quote by William Manchester](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/996/william-manchester-18393_conversation_it-is-true-that-despite-occasional-gleam_124199.jpg)
![“His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them.” quote by William Manchester](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/572/william-manchester-18393_hero_his-gen-douglas-macarthur-s-own-heroes-w_1273936.jpg)
![“And the differences thence arising [between the constitution of men and women] are no ways sufficient to argue more natural strength in the one than in the other, to qualify them more for military labours. Are not the Women of different degrees of strength, like the Men? Are there not strong and…” quote by Lady Sophia Fermor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2bf/lady-sophia-fermor-20567_18th-century_and-the-differences-thence-arising-betwe_38711.jpg)
![“By 18th century standards, they [Great Britain] were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the highest wages and highest living standard, and probably the most engagement between the populace and the government of any country. Then the United States…” quote by Charles R. Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ca2/charles-r-morris-19787_18th-century_by-18th-century-standards-they-great-bri_49883.jpg)
![“I shou'd not myself have thought [Cato] worth so much notice as I have here taken of him; but that the Men are weak enough in general, to suffer their sense to be led away captive, by such half-thinking retailers of sentences. Among whom, This in particular, was he worth the pains, might be easily…” quote by Lady Sophia Fermor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/592/lady-sophia-fermor-20567_18th-century_i-shou-d-not-myself-have-thought-cato-wo_183319.jpg)
