Alan Lascelles > Quotes

“Carting potatoes, of which we have a fine crop, I was continually struck by the resemblance which the average large potato bears to General de Gaulle, though the potato is, of course, the more malleable of the two.”
― Alan Lascelles, King's Counsellor: Abdication and War: the Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles edited by Duff Hart-Davis

“… other people’s troubles don’t make one’s own any easier …”
― Alan Lascelles, King's Counsellor Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles

“I don’t see how history can arrive at the truth if contemporaries are not allowed to write it.”
― Alan Lascelles, King's Counsellor Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles

“What chance has a diarist in these days? The world canvas is so vast, the details on it so crowded, that detached comment is impossible.”
― Alan Lascelles, King's Counsellor: Abdication and War: the Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles edited by Duff Hart-Davis