William Stevenson Quotes

William Stevenson's lines have a rustic, lyrical feel, appealing to those who like old-world humor and simple storytelling.

13 quotes

I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good; But sure I think that I can drink With him that wears a hood. Though I go bare, take ye no care, I nothing am a-cold; I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly good ale and old.

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“Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.’ And he replied, ‘Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way.’ . . .”
“They cannot know What makes you as you are Nor can they hear Those voices from afar Which whisper to you You are not alone… They cannot reach That inner core of you The long before of you The child inside Deep deep inside Which gives the man his pride… What you are They can never be And what they are Will soon be history.”
“In the November 1940 week of nightmares, when mighty German planes bombed London, British bombers retaliated by attacking Berlin, where the Soviet foreign minister, Molotov, was pressing Hitler for an answer to just exactly when German forces would invade the British Isles. We had heard of the conference beforehand,' Churchill told Parliament, ' and, although not invited to join in the discussion, did not wish to be entirely left out of the proceedings.”
“This country is like a family,” he muttered, quoting George Orwell, “with the wrong members in control.” Even”
“But what were these hopes in which he was disappointed? What were these wishes in which he was frustrated? What was that faith that was abused? They were surely among the most noble and benevolent instincts of the human heart: the love of peace, the toil for peace, the strife for peace, the pursuit of peace, even at great peril.”1”
“France was eclipsed by the solid German block, producing far more than twice her number of military males each year, towering up grim and grisly. It was the vengeful women of France who would have to fill gaps in any resistance armies. Paris”
“There’s a considerable difference between being high-minded and soft-headed.” There”
“IG Farben's dividends double in the first year that its subsidiary sent Zyklon-B to gas death-camp”
“The President would lead U.S. public opinion by defining the economic price Americans would have to pay if Hitler conquered Europe.”
“On December 2, 1939, Vera learned that mobile gas chambers were used to murder patients in Poland's mental hospitals.”
“But of course Hitler had long before declared war unofficially and secretly against America, his ultimate target. He had written: ‘Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within. Our aim is to conquer the enemy through himself.’ “This”
“Gubby had proved primitive methods could undermine the most advanced technology,”