Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel quotes

“Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow to replace a cuddly old teddy bear.”
-- Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel

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“Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world.”
-- Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel

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“M F K Fisher is the dowager queen of writers on browsing and slicing.”
-- Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel

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“We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.”

“She stood looking carefully at the labeled portraits Ursala had put up: Little Crow, Chief of the Santees, Geronimo, last of the Apaches, and Ursala's favorite, Big Foot, dying in the snow at Wounded Knee. "Isn't that where the massacre was?" asked Ellen. "Yes. I'm going to go there when I'm grown up. To Wounded Knee." "That seems sensible," said Ellen.”

Source : Eva Ibbotson (2008). “A Song for Summer”, p.22, Pan Macmillan

“Trust me--with women worth the being won, The softest lover ever best succeeds.”

“Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail.”

“But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.”

“It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure, some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.”

“A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.”

“Awake! thou that sleepest, arise from the dead! The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never changed. The things He did in Bible days, He still lives to do today. Not a burden is there He cannot bear nor a fetter He cannot break.”

Source : Aimee Semple McPherson (2009). “This is That: Personal Experiences Sermons and Writings of Aimee Semple McPherson”, p.677, Wipf and Stock Publishers

“Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.”

“Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.”