American DEWAR FAMILY Cameron Dewar Ursula Beep Dewar, his sister Woody Dewar, his father Bella Dewar, his mother PESHKOV-JAKES FAMILY George Jakes Jacky Jakes, his mother Greg Peshkov, his father Lev...
James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.
The ability to listen to smart people who disagree with you is a rare talent
In every country, those who were against war had been overruled. The Austrians had attacked Serbia when they might have held back; the Russians had mobilized instead of negotiating; the Germans had re...
He was like a man who has got used to drinking the finest wine, and now finds that everyday wine thats like vinegar.
After the Battle of Midway it was clear that the Pacific war would be won by planes launched from ships. Both Japan and the United States began crash programs to build aircraft carriers as fast as pos...
When you were trying to enforce law and order, it was difficult to explain that the rules did not actually apply to you personally.
Trials rarely found men not guilty. The general view was that if a man were innocent he would not have got into trouble in the first place.
Monika answered for her father. Giving Walter a conspiratorial grin, she said: Daddy used to say that if the tsar had been born to a different station in life, he might, with an effort, have become a...
Marriage is a promise. You can’t keep a promise only when it suits you. You have to keep it against your inclination. That’s what it means.
He had seen - clever, clever boy that he was - that she could not be won by wooing; and he had approached her sidelong, as a friend rather than a lover, meeting her in the woods and telling her storie...
You didn’t ask for a priest. Whether I’ve been good or bad, I don’t think God will be fooled by a last-minute change of heart.
When you're about to be turned down, go for a postponement.
When a man is certain that he knows God’s will, and is resolved to do it regardless of the cost, he is the most dangerous person in the world.
A German attack on Russia’s ally France would, in reality, be defensive—but the English talked as if Germany was trying to dominate Europe.
You're the one who doesn't understand, Lev said. In America, I have my own car. There's more food than you can eat, all the booze I want, all the cigarettes I can smoke. I have five suits!What's the p...
To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.
His talent was to express his readers’ most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That was why they bought the paper.
His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.
Culture clash is terrific drama