David Bober

“Here was a manifestation of a huge, historic British folly, repeated over many centuries including the twenty-first: the adoption of gesture strategy, committing small forces as an earnest of good intentions, heedless of their gross inadequacy for the military purpose at hand.”
― Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

“The French were more tolerant of brothels than any other nation in Europe, though there was some dispute about whether this reflected enlightenment or depravity.”
― Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

“The food was what you might expect to find on Air Uganda tourist class:”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

“— Qu'est-ce qui vous effraie le plus dans la pureté?
— La hâte.”
― Umberto Eco