"The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s."

-- Robert Darnton

#Oxford Quotes #England Quotes #1960s Quotes

“In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.”

Source : "Best of the Century" by Albert Ellis, www.psychologytoday.com. November 1, 1999.
“She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods... The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachersâ€”stern and wild onesâ€”and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.”
“Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.”
“China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves.”
“It's strong, Ian. The way she feels about you is something else. She loves this world, but so much of the reason she couldn't leave was really you. She thinks of you as her anchor. You gave her a reason to finally stay in one place after a lifetime of wandering.”
“To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.”

Source : Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works. A New Ed”, p.223
“I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.”
“Nobody can boast of Honesty till they are try'd.”

Source : Susanna Centlivre (1760). “The Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre ...: Love's contrivance. Busy body. Marplot in Lisbon. Platonic lady. Perplexed lovers. Cruel gift”, p.282

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