To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.
-
Similar:
| Quote 1291 | I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the cur... |
| Quote 3086 | Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it. |
| Quote 3037 | Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. |
| Quote 2377 | There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature... |
| Quote 13614 | For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks-not that you won or lost- But how you played the game. |
| Quote 13944 | I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I did it. And... |
| Quote 10165 | For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us... |
| Quote 7558 | During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour... |
| Quote 3923 | I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains. |