Quotes by : Richard Davenport-Hines

Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable....

Bell defined civilization in the language of a Bloomsbury connoisseur: ‘A taste for truth and beauty,....

The science of public happiness was how Keynes saw his work as an economist.

Instead of using their vastly increased material and technical resources to build a wonder-city, they....

Ritzonia" was the epithet coined by Bernard Bernson, who sold Italian pictures to American millionaires,....

Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden....

At present", Keynes said in 1926, "everything is politics, and nothing policies.

Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does....

He never sat an examination in economics: his knowledge came from pondering problems and discussing them....

Keynes was a voracious reader. He had what he called ‘one of the best of all gifts – the eye which....