Top 11 Sumption Quotes
#1. He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.
Mervyn Peake
#2. I freely admit that I have many times adopted Jim Oakley's precept of a "bloody good gallop," often with spectacular results. To this day I frequently learn things from farmers, but that was one time when I learned from a postman.
James Herriot
#3. He rose late. He was recklessly extravagant and a notorious womaniser. The King was never a cipher. But well before his world was clouded by illness and insanity his capacity for public business was limited. He was idle, slow-witted and easily bored.
Jonathan Sumption
#4. Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.
Marshall McLuhan
#6. Bergamot is a mild diuretic and has anti-inflammatory, which makes it helpful in the treatment of varicose veins.
Nathaniel Wake
#7. Romantic love is the kite that catches the wind and tenaciously heads for the sky;
wisdom is the string that tugs downward, holding it back
Joshua Harris
#8. Realist artists should join together in a worldwide effort ... Sharing it with each other and teaching it - that is the key to the success and never-ending beauty and harmony of Realism.
Igor Babailov
#9. He was worried she would not let him love her with the stain. He had already decided long ago, twenty or thirty minutes ago, that the stain was fine. He had only seen it for a moment, but he was already used to it. It was good. It somehow allowed them to have more.
Miranda July
#10. We would do well to ask ourselves the kind of fundamental questions posed by [Buruma's] erudite and thought-provoking book.
Jonathan Sumption
#11. I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consistent attitude.
Edward Charles Titchmarsh
