John Preston > Quotes

“Thorpe referred to Ted Heath as ‘The plum pudding around which no one has succeeded in lighting the brandy’.”
― John Preston, A Very English Scandal

“he would have to lie, he decided. Although he had done quite a bit of it in his life, Bessell did not like lying. He was still”
― John Preston, A Very English Scandal

“As in life, it was the ones who were keenest to make themselves heard who invariably had the least to say. But only when they had spoken their fill could others, less frivolous and more diffident, be allowed to take their place.”
― John Preston, The Dig