"Animated the face might have been beautiful — any set of features can support beauty — but even a superb makeup job could not have made her pretty."

"I am an unrepentant book lover, and so soaked am I in the love of books that I feel – poor twentieth-century shopkeeper that I am – I feel that Pliny is a man I know, for all the eighteen centuries an…"

"I think our nationals won't support us if we have to spend a lot of money to establish ties with one or two new allies."

"Their support was not needed, therefore they were not courted."

"“Mahomed Shah now sat down before Condapilly and Bhim Raj, after six months, being much distressed, sued for pardon; which being granted, at the intercession of some of the nobility, he surrendered th…"