Amanda Foreman > Quotes

“I feel I've done some things in life too late and others too early”
― Amanda Foreman, Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire

“His (Grant's) face has three expressions: deep thought, extreme determination, and great simplicity and calmness.”
― Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War

“If everyone followed through on their resolutions, the conseqences for humanity would be dire: The fast food industry would collapse, the gyms would become unbearably crowded, and lifestyle magazines would have nothing left to say.”
― Amanda Foreman

“Never trust a man with another’s secret,” she is reputed to have said, “never trust a woman with her own.”
― Amanda Foreman, Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire

“when others draw you out of your own character, and make you assume one that is quite a stranger to you, it is difficult to distinguish you under the disguise”
― Amanda Foreman, Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire

“(One bag contained the Confederate flag and a pouch filled with Virginia soil. Georgiana intended to give birth with the flag draped symbolically above the bed and the soil placed underneath to ensure that the baby was a true Virginian.)”
― Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War

“Biographers are notorious for falling in love with their subjects. It is the literary equivalent of the Stockholm Syndrome,”
― Amanda Foreman, Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire

“trying his best to discourage them,”
― Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War

“Lyons’s views on America were generally in keeping with those of the Foreign Office: he was well disposed to its people, but he thought that democracy made the government weak and handed too much power to the violent and ignorant elements of society.”
― Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War

“The feeling is the less to be combated, because it is utterly unreasonable and utterly regardless of facts or arguments.”
― Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War