"Scandal, it bears repeating, undermines monarchies, but rarely ends them. It may be true that, according to a recent editorial in the New York Times, the British monarchy now exists primarily 'for our amusement'. But as long as people find it amusing, and want to be amused by it, they will be happy to see it undermined but uneager to kill it off."

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Source : David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, Penguin Group USA

David Cannadine

#New York Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“Everyday, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.”
“In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow”
“I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.”
“A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.”
“The Australian sees itself not as a mere newspaper, but as a player in the game of national politics, calling upon the vast resources of the Murdoch empire and the millions of words it has available to it to try to make and unmake governments.”
“A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.”
“As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl. [Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris.]”
“Whoever leads an auspicious life here and governs the commonwealth rightly, as my most noble father did, who promoted all piety and banished all ignorance, has a most certain way to heaven.”

Source : "Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence" edited by Janel Mueller, University Of Chicago Press, (pp. 128-129), 2011.

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