Richard Hillary > Quotes

“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind.”
― Richard Hillary, The Last Enemy: The Memoir of a Spitfire Pilot

“It is maintained by some that travel has no educational value, that a person with sensibility can gain as rich an experience of life by staying right where he is as by wandering around the world, and that a person with no sensibility may as well remain at home anyway. To me this is nonsense, for if one is a bore, I maintain that it is better to be a bore about Peshawar than Upper Tooting.”
― Richard Hillary, The Last Enemy: The Centenary Collection

“I love the capital. The wind on the health might call for a time, but the facile glitter of the city was the stronger. Self-esteem, I suppose, is one cause; for in the city, work of man, one is somebody, feet on the pavement, suit on the body, anybody's equal and nobody's fool; but in the country, work of god, one is nothing, less than the earth, the birds, and the trees; one is discordant - a blot.”
― Richard Hillary, The Last Enemy: The Memoir of a Spitfire Pilot

“some Squadrons doesn’t receive quite the same”
― Richard Hillary, The Last Enemy by Richard Hillary: A World War Two Memoir by a Spitfire Pilot

“Oxford has been called many names, from 'the city of beautiful nonsense' to 'an organized waste of time”
― Richard Hillary, The Last Enemy: The Centenary Collection

“Quoique sans patrie et sans roi,
Et très brave ne l’étant guere,
J’ai voulu mourir à la guerre.
La mort n’a pas voulu de moi.”
― Richard Hillary, The Last Enemy

“first”
― Richard Hillary, The Last Enemy by Richard Hillary: A World War Two Memoir by a Spitfire Pilot