Arthur Bryant Quotes

• Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

  Arthur Bryant

  Writers And Writing, Writing By Writers

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• And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.

  Arthur Bryant

  Farewell, Thinking, Brain

  Sir Arthur Bryant, Alan Brooke Alanbrooke (Viscount) (1957). “The Turn of the Tide: A History of the War Years Based on the Diares of Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff”

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• Rightly conceived, time is the friend of all who are in any way in adversity, for its mazy road winds in and out of the shadows sooner or later into sunshine, and when one is at its darkest point one can be certain that presently it will grow brighte.

  Arthur Bryant

  Adversity, Sunshine, Wind

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• All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history.

  Arthur Bryant

  Race, People, Common Sense

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• Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.

  Arthur Bryant

  Men, Trying, Half

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• Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.

  Arthur Bryant

  Evil, Soul, Denial

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• To the medieval mind a liberty was a right to the enjoyment of a specific property It was a freedom to do something with one's own without interference by the king or any other man.

  Arthur Bryant

  Kings, Men, Mind

  Arthur Bryant (1985). “Set in a silver sea: the island peoples from earliest times to the fifteenth century”

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• Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.

  Arthur Bryant

  Real, Years, Berlin

  Sir Arthur Bryant, Adolf Hitler (1940). “Unfinished victory”

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• When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.

  Arthur Bryant

  Kings, Royal, Hats

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