“ GBS wired Winston: Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend—if you have one. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the… William Manchester
“ There was nothing green left; artillery had denuded and scarred every inch of ground. Tiny flares glowed and disappeared. Shrapnel burst with bluish white puffs. Jets of flamethrowers flickered and he… William Manchester
“ An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome. William Manchester
“ I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me. William Manchester
“ The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes the past succeed only in making it seem implausible. William Manchester
“ Exploring the mind of the psychotic is impossible - the shortest distance between two points becomes a maze. William Manchester
“ There was nothing green left; artillery had denuded and scarred every inch of ground. Tiny flares glowed and disappeared. Shrapnel burst with bluish white puffs. Jets of flamethrowers flickered and he… William Manchester
“ Inside his second-rate mind, one felt, a third-rate mind was struggling toward the surface. William Manchester
“ When I call him a son of a bitch I am not using profanity, but am referring to the circumstances of his birth. William Manchester
“ All the sources are secondary, and few are new; I have not mastered recent scholarship of the early sixteenth century. William Manchester
“ The author points out that novices to total war, and this Hitler and the British press have in common, overreact to daily events and lose sight of overall strategy. William Manchester
“ John Kennedy once remarked that victory has a thousand fathers and defeat is an orphan. William Manchester
“ If I knew what was true, I’d be willing to sweat and strive for it, and maybe even to die for it to the tune of bugle blasts. But so far, I have not found it, William Manchester
“ A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using it and tiring it… the tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened, not merely by rest, but by using other parts…. It is… William Manchester
“ A man is all the people he has been. Some recollections never die. They lie in one's subconscious, squirreled away, biding their time. William Manchester
“ Was an eighth cousin of Churchill, and a sixth cousin, once removed, of FDR—and three of World War II’s great leaders were thus linked by American intermarriages. William Manchester
“ The key to successful extramarital sex, therefore, was discretion. Mrs. Patrick Campbell, perhaps the most outspoken woman in polite society, said dryly: It doesn’t matter what you do in the bedroom,… William Manchester
