Esmé Cecil Wingfield-Stratford (1882–1971) was an English historian, writer, mind-trainer, outdoorsman, patriot and ruralist.
The mere fact that [Tommy Atkins] saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined by fear, tended to make him behave like a hero, as he did on the Ridge of Delhi and in the fog at Inkermann.
Ernst Gombrich
Philippe Petit
Ban Ki-moon
Marina Tsvetaeva
Claudette Colbert
Lucas Black
Nick Frost
Dizzee Rascal
Ken Grimwood
Anoushka Shankar
Nigel Godrich
Gordon Brown