Helen Sews

“Through and beyond the period of Roman domination, vessels plied Atlantic waters. By the end of the seventh century bulk trade of minerals and grain, the sort of interaction we would recognise as maritime trade, was a thing of the long distant past.”
― Max Adams, The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria

“Doctor, you make abstrusities appear very elementary,” he said. “On the contrary, Colonel, the truth is that you argue the elementary into the abstrusity. See you tomorrow.”
― E. Radford, Murder Isn't Cricket

“There are few people so obstinate as the man who half thinks he is wrong.”
― Raymond Postgate, Somebody at The Door