Francis Walsingham famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.
Disneyworld...is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.
I invented the historical spy novel.
I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'.
...Promises are more dangerous then secrets.
Liberty is dangerous.
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
I follow my course with the precision and security of a sleepwalker.
We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

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