Quotes by : Adam Nicolson

t's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding,....

The 19th century had chosen only to remember the happy warrior. The 20th century only the blood come....

We are wanderers, place shifters, the cosmic homeless. This is not a modern truth, and Achilles is not....

The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain.

Very occasionally, a simplified form of communion and of adult baptism for new members of the church....

At that level through out the 18th century, another vision of admirable behavior persisted. The mob did....