“ Some drink to forget, I drink to remember. I drink in order to understand what I mean and to discover what I know. Under its benign influence all the stories and dramas which properly belong to the sp… Peter Ackroyd
“ Everybody needed news. Everybody wanted news. News was known as ‘hot’. It was a society of conversation so that rumour and gossip passed quickly through the streets. At times of more than usual excite… Peter Ackroyd
“ As soon as he had left the room and walked into the air, he knew that he would never return and for the first time his fears lifted. It was a spring morning, and when he walked into Severndale Park he… Peter Ackroyd
“ There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we understand that we are at odds with the rest of the world: we are travelling bac… Peter Ackroyd
“ In the summer of that year two women were stripped and beaten with rods, their ears nailed to a wooden post, for having said that ‘queen Katherine is the true queen of England Peter Ackroyd
“ In the old wild days of the world there was a king of England known as Uther Pendragon; he was a dragon in wrath as well as in power. Peter Ackroyd
“ I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a… Peter Ackroyd
“ I can recall quite clearly the journey from Omaha to San Francisco which I made with the opera troupe; God had created the world in less time than it took us to travel across America. Peter Ackroyd
“ You say that it is time to shake off the Mist, but Mankind walks in a Mist; that Reason which you cry up as the Glory of this Age is a Proteus and Cameleon that changes its Shape almost in every Man:… Peter Ackroyd
“ When the city was described as pagan, it was partly because no one living among such urban suffering could have much faith in a god who allowed cities such as London to flourish. Peter Ackroyd
“ Una de las grandes maldiciones del género humano es la de temer cuando no hay nada que temer, contestó. Este ánimo supersticioso y amigo de los presagios desarma los corazones de los hombres, ablanda… Peter Ackroyd
“ The cure for tonsillitis was inspired. ‘Take a fat cat, skin it, draw out the guts and take the grease of a hedgehog and the fat of a bear … All this crumble small and stuff the cat, roast it whole an… Peter Ackroyd
“ Suffering is intrinsic to human existence. There is no joy without its attendant pain. Peter Ackroyd
“ Sir it did not belong to me to examine the matter, since I knew full well that I should not be a judge of the matter for it belongs only to a judge to study illam Sacre Scripture clausam where Holy Jo… Peter Ackroyd
“ History is about longing and belonging. It is about the need for permanence and the perception of continuity. It concerns the atavistic desire to find deep sources of identity. Peter Ackroyd
“ By the time of Athelstan the country was divided into shires, hundreds and vills or townships, precisely in order to expedite taxation. The shires of England were unique, their boundaries lasting for… Peter Ackroyd
“ The great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirror on every page Peter Ackroyd
“ It has been observed that Londoners became more extravagant in the presence of Charles Dickens, so that they might appear more Dickensian, so Peter Ackroyd
“ VANNBRUGGHE. But the bounds of the Mind are yet unknown: we form our Judgments too much on what has been done without knowing what might be done. Originals must soar into the region of Liberty.DYER.… Peter Ackroyd
