English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Patrick O'Brian: 'On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.' Read More English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Patrick O'Brian: 'You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.' Read More English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Patrick O'Brian: 'Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.' Read More English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Patrick O'Brian: 'Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book.' Read More English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Patrick O'Brian: 'In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.' Read More English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Patrick O'Brian: 'I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.' Read More English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Patrick O'Brian: 'About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.' Read More English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Patrick O'Brian: 'I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.' Read More English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Patrick O'Brian: 'I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.' Read More English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Patrick O'Brian: 'I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.' Read More English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Patrick O'Brian: 'The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.' Read More English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Edward VIII: 'These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again.' Read More English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Edward VIII: 'A boy is holding a girl so very tight in his arms tonight.' Read More English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Edward VIII: 'I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn't have much time.' Read More English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Edward VIII: 'I like going there for golf. America's one vast golf course these days.' Read More English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Edward VIII: 'When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else.' Read More English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Edward VIII: 'Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.' Read More English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Edward VIII: 'The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.' Read More English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Edward Teach: 'Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence came you?' Read More English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Edward Teach: 'Damnation seize my soul if I give your quarters, or take any from you.' Read More Newer Posts Older Posts
English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Patrick O'Brian: 'On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.' Read More
English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Patrick O'Brian: 'You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.' Read More
English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Patrick O'Brian: 'Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.' Read More
English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Patrick O'Brian: 'Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book.' Read More
English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Patrick O'Brian: 'In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.' Read More
English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Patrick O'Brian: 'I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.' Read More
English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Patrick O'Brian: 'About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.' Read More
English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Patrick O'Brian: 'I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.' Read More
English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Patrick O'Brian: 'I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.' Read More
English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Patrick O'Brian: 'I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.' Read More
English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Patrick O'Brian: 'The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.' Read More
English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Edward VIII: 'These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again.' Read More
English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Edward VIII: 'A boy is holding a girl so very tight in his arms tonight.' Read More
English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Edward VIII: 'I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn't have much time.' Read More
English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Edward VIII: 'I like going there for golf. America's one vast golf course these days.' Read More
English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Edward VIII: 'When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else.' Read More
English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Edward VIII: 'Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.' Read More
English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Edward VIII: 'The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.' Read More
English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Edward Teach: 'Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence came you?' Read More
English Authors 11/22/23 English Authors 11/22/23 Edward Teach: 'Damnation seize my soul if I give your quarters, or take any from you.' Read More