Quotes by : Peter Ackroyd

History is about longing and belonging. It is about the need for permanence and the perception of continuity.....

To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone.

It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance....

Truly Time is a vast Denful of Horrour, round about which a Serpent winds and in the winding bites itself....

Hawksmoor had often noticed how, in the moments when he first carne upon a corpse, all the objects around....

On his thirteenth birthday he had seen a film in which the central character was a painter who, unable....

This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field without....

We went back into the Mens Apartments where there were others raving of Ships that may fly and silvered....

It is one of the greatest Curses visited upon Mankind, he told me, that they shall fear where no Fear....

Women, of their nature, crave for liberty; they will not be ordered around like servants.