Biography

🇬🇧Richard Aldington

Literature

1892–1962

"By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a prescence, a genius loci, a potency."

🇬🇧Alex Ferguson

Medicine

b. 1941

"That's one of the most stupid questions I've heard. I'll go with Mascherano."

🇺🇸John Jay Chapman

Literature

1862–1933

"A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful."

Sidney Lee

Literature

1859–1926

"a purely literal interpretation of the impassioned protestations of affection for a "lovely boy", which course through the sonnets, casts a slur on the dignity of the poet's name which scarcely bears discussion"

🇬🇧Eleanor Farjeon

Literature

1881–1965

"Romance gathers round an old story like lichen on an old branch. And the story of Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard is so old now — some say a year old, some say even two. How can the children be expected to remember?"

🇬🇧Howard Marks

Entertainment

1945–2016

"Investment success doesn’t come from "buying good things", but rather from "buying things well."

🇬🇧Sarah Bakewell

Literature

b. 1963

"The peasantry … were the true philosophers of the modern world, the heirs to classical sages such as Seneca and Socrates. Only they knew how to live, precisely because they knew nothing much about anything else."

John Aubrey

Literature

1626–1697

"He pronounced the letter R very hard – a certaine signe of a Satyricall Witt."

🇺🇸David Cay Johnston

Economics

b. 1948

"Inflation, combined with the end of real growth in wages beginning in 1973, created... "bracket creep" that moved people into higher tax brackets even if... real incomes were unchanged."

🇪🇸Núria Añó

Literature

b. 1973

"I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful."