William Manchester Quotes
William Manchester's collection delivers vivid, dramatic accounts of trauma and truth that pull readers into history's raw moments.
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Finally, she broke her silence and spelled it out to Dr. Burkley. Kneeling, John Kennedy's personal physician indicated her ghastly skirt with a trembling hand. 'Another dress?', he suggested diffidently. 'No', she whispered fiercely, 'Let them see the horror.'
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It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.
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Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
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Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
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I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.
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I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an inefficient way to write a book, though I found it exciting.
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A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds.
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He was a great thundering paradox of a man.
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His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them.
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But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.
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As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.
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His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. Like them, he was slandered and misunderstood.
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The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.