Athanasius

“The Orthodox intellectuals of the commonwealth, long without a king of their own, embraced the opportunity to enter an idealized Orthodox world inspired by the Byzantine vision of symphony between an autocratic ruler and the one true church.”
― Serhii Plokhy, The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

“Lemberg, Lwów, L’viv, 1914–1947: Violence and Ethnicity in a Contested City”
― Christoph Mick, Lemberg, Lwów, L'viv, 1914 - 1947: Violence and Ethnicity in a Contested City

“He never flinched, he never cringed, but he died as one would wish all Englishmen to die—quietly and undramatically,”
― Martin Gilbert, The First World War: A Complete History

“The art of change ringing is peculiar to the English, and, like most English peculiarities, unintelligible to the rest of the world. To the musical Belgian, for example, it appears that the proper thing to do with a carefully tuned ring of bells is to play a tune upon it. By the English campanologist, the playing of tunes is considered to be a childish game, only fit for foreigners; the proper use of bells is to work out mathematical permutations and combinations.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Nine Tailors