English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Antony Beevor Quotes

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

Antony Beevor

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

We have come to a parting of the ways, I suppose", said Anne thoughtfully."we had to come to it, do you think, Diana, that being grown up is really as nice as we used to imagine it would be when we were children?"I don't know-there are SOME nice things about it,"answered Diana, again caressing her ring with that little smile which always had the effect of making Anne feel suddenly left out and inexperienced."But there are so many puzzling things, too. Sometimes I feel as if being grown-up... L. M. Montgomery
Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me. Marge Piercy
And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything. Mark Haddon
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy Albert Camus
Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: "The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it..."
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Robert Smithson quote: "The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are..."
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. Robert Smithson
Bob Marley quote: "Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction."
Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction. Bob Marley
The most thrilling day of the year, the first real day of Spring had enclosed its warm delicious beauty even to London eyes. It had put a spangle in every colour and a new tone in every voice, and city folks walked as though they carried real bodies under their clothes with real live hearts pumping the still blood through. Katherine Mansfield
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. Martin Luther King jr.
Milan Kundera quote: "because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion...."
because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion. They are composed like musicpg 52 Milan Kundera
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another! Gail Sheehy
I was jut vamping for time to make a few self-improvements: I knew damn well I'd never be a movie star, it's too hard; and if you're intelligent, it's too embarrassing. My complexes aren't inferior enough: being a movie star and having a big fat ego are supposed to go hand-in-hand; actually, it's essential not to have any ego at all. Truman Capote
Hugh Mackay quote: "But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more..."
But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all. Hugh Mackay
Al Boliska quote: "Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of..."
Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror. Al Boliska
It is a merciful provision my dears, for it takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world. You are costly creatures, boys, and it is well that mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters love their duty and do it so well, or you would perish off the face of the earth,' said Mrs. Jo solemnl? Louisa May Alcott