“People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.”
Martha Gellhorn
“People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.”
Marguerite Gardiner
“I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.”
Winston Churchill
“A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.”
Robert Graves
“The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.”
“San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of remarkable beauty”
Rudyard Kipling
“In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sa”
Niccolo Machiavelli