Quotes by : William Manchester

Biographer diagnoses reaction to restriction as a tell of true character. Some use even prison as a time....

Today's Europeans and Americans who reached the age of awareness after midcentury when the communications....

They were following their prime minister, matching their government's mood.

It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important.....

I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

There was nothing green left; artillery had denuded and scarred every inch of ground. Tiny flares glowed....

The author points out that novices to total war, and this Hitler and the British press have in common,....

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.....

The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes....

The hero acts alone, without encouragement, relying solely on conviction and his own inner resources.....

There was, however, a difference between his mood and that of the rest of the cabinet. They felt desperate;....