Keith Hudson

“They thought you could see life through books but you couldn’t, the reason being that the words got in the way.”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

“a bizarre footnote, in 2010 Julia Thomas’s skull was unearthed in the garden of the broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough. A team of builders discovered the skull when they were excavating foundations for an extension, at the spot where the Rising Sun once stood. In July 2011, the West London coroner Alison Thompson formally identified the skull as belonging to Julia Thomas and recorded a verdict of unlawful killing.”
― Catharine Arnold, Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City

“MacLaine was a model prisoner, but his courage deserted him at the end. Arriving at Tyburn, he looked sadly up at the gallows, and with a heartfelt sigh exclaimed: ‘O Jesus!”
― Catharine Arnold, Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City

“Horace Walpole wrote in the mid-eighteenth century: ‘No great country was ever saved by good men, because good men will not go to the lengths that may be necessary.”
― Max Hastings, Chastise