It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit. — Peter Ackroyd
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Peter Ackroyd : British Author
Born: October 5, 1949
Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral …
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. Philip…
These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require grea…
A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intell …
Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up …
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud …
Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral …
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. Philip…
These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require grea…
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives …
A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intell …
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may …
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing …
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may y…
You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother m…
Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up …
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud …
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentme…
No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mu…
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself – with a sm…
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; qu…
The communitarians may say you’ve been enjoying too much ind…
You don’t know what unconditional love is. You may say you d…
I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forc…
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat …
Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character …
