William Manchester Quotes (14 quotations)
1. Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down there, still hot, still glowing, still red as red. - William Manchester
2. Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself. - William Manchester
3. An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome. - William Manchester
4. As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action. - William Manchester
5. He was a great thundering paradox of a man. - William Manchester
6. I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore. - William Manchester
7. It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking to Victoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons. It was superb. - William Manchester
8. Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at [Pearl Harbor's] officers' mess [and] are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945. - William Manchester
9. 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. - William Manchester
10. Our Boeing 747 has been fleeing westward from darkened California, racing across the Pacific toward the sun, the incandescent eye of God, but slowly, three hours later than West Coast time, twilight gathers outside, veil upon lilac veil. - William Manchester
11. Portly, balding, Brooks-Brothered. - William Manchester
12. The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses. - William Manchester
13. The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness. - William Manchester
14. The French had collapsed. The Dutch had been overwhelmed. The Belgians had surrendered. The British army, trapped, fought free and fell back toward the Channel ports, converging on a fishing town whose name was then spelled Dunkerque. Behind them lay the sea. It was England's greatest crisis since the Norman Conquest, vaster than those precipitated by Philip II's Spanish Armada, Louis XIV's triumphant armies or Napoleon's invasion barges massed at Boulogne. This time Britain stood alone. - William Manchester
2. Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself. - William Manchester
3. An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome. - William Manchester
4. As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action. - William Manchester
5. He was a great thundering paradox of a man. - William Manchester
6. I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore. - William Manchester
7. It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking to Victoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons. It was superb. - William Manchester
8. Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at [Pearl Harbor's] officers' mess [and] are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945. - William Manchester
9. 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. - William Manchester
10. Our Boeing 747 has been fleeing westward from darkened California, racing across the Pacific toward the sun, the incandescent eye of God, but slowly, three hours later than West Coast time, twilight gathers outside, veil upon lilac veil. - William Manchester
11. Portly, balding, Brooks-Brothered. - William Manchester
12. The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses. - William Manchester
13. The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness. - William Manchester
14. The French had collapsed. The Dutch had been overwhelmed. The Belgians had surrendered. The British army, trapped, fought free and fell back toward the Channel ports, converging on a fishing town whose name was then spelled Dunkerque. Behind them lay the sea. It was England's greatest crisis since the Norman Conquest, vaster than those precipitated by Philip II's Spanish Armada, Louis XIV's triumphant armies or Napoleon's invasion barges massed at Boulogne. This time Britain stood alone. - William Manchester
