“ It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully died. One of the things that causes some critics to marvel at Miss Austen is t… Christopher Hitchens
“ The right-wing Tories and the conservative Whigs fought Napoleon as the Usurper and the Enemy of the Established Order; the liberal Tories and the radical Whigs fought him as the Betrayer of the Revol… J. Christopher Herold
“ His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend of Mr. Addington; but their respective friends were each other's enemies. Mr. Fo… J. Christopher Herold
“ Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense. J. Christopher Herold
“ In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down. Leo Tolstoy
