Mazower Mark Quotes

#1. Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit,
For works may have more with than does 'em good,
As bodies perish through excess of blood.

Alexander Pope

#2. So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

Eric Clapton

#3. I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

Aleister Crowley

#4. A person of little knowledge
Grows old as a plough-ox grows old.
His fleshes increases;
His wisdom does not increase.

Anonymous

#5. Love water, protect it:

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. If you ever took an enema, you'd disappear off the face of this Earth without trace!

Lady Colin Campbell

#7. Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.

Pete Du Pont

#8. I'm not bad-looking, but I'm not a beauty, either.

Carine Roitfeld

#9. This story of benign judicial neglect of Nazis and collaborators forms a striking contrast with the systematic repression of the Greek Left, which lasted for over two decades.

Mark Mazower

#10. What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. When the discussion threatened to overheat, Palamas calmed it down by saying politely: "Had we been able to agree in debate we might as well have been of one faith." To which he received the revealing reply: "There will be a time when we shall all agree."11

Mark Mazower