“Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener.”
Bill Bryson
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
“There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself. [Pg.189]”
Akira Kurosawa
Something Like an Autobiography
“Dealing with people, my friends, is really nothing more than a question of the price that one is willing to pay. The better you understand life, the more capital you build.”
Gregor von Rezzori
An Ermine in Czernopol
“We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.”
Anne Rice
Vittorio, The Vampire
“the thing about pessimism is that in most cases it's nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.”
Eric Clapton