Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.
History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.
History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position.
If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints.
A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.
Perfectionism is the fear of being criticized.
A whispering and watery Norfolk sound Telling of all the moonlit reeds around.
I dress women the way I see them and the way I envision them from day one, thus my customer knows that what she is looking for she will get.