He was like a man who has got used to drinking the finest wine, and now finds that everyday wine thats like vinegar.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
I enjoy learning technical details.
What news? There's nothing to tell. I'm a nun.
If it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
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...
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 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.
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.
Little things please little minds.
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.
He believed in Communism the way most people believed in God: he would not be greatly surprised or disappointed if he turned out to be wrong, and meanwhile it made little difference to the way he live...
But desperate people find courage.
The Führer's judgement will be proved right - again.''Of course it will, Erik.''He has never yet been wrong!''A man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-storey building, and as he f...
She was wilful, maddening, quarrelsome and intolerant, but somehow these things were trifling: there was a passion inside her that burned like a candle in a lantern, and it lit up his life.