Kat Strand

“So the convict establishment, born of poverty and hatred, gave birth to wealth and hope.”
― Keith Sinclair, A History of New Zealand

“Augustine said he wept more for the death of Dido than he did for the death of his own saviour. What about Book Four, the best book of the best poem of the best poet?”
― Boris Johnson

“The expansion of Europe had begun. Before it ended, in our own time, the greater part of the world, including the scattered islands of the Pacific, was to be seized by an insatiable civilization, greedy for spices or for realms of gold; for land, mere novelty, or for souls.”
― Keith Sinclair, A History of New Zealand

“Cato was the most vociferous enemy of Carthage, notoriously, tediously but ultimately persuasively ending every speech he made with the words ‘Carthage must be destroyed’ (‘Carthago delenda est’, in the still familiar Latin phrase).”
― Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome