Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing

Quote by John Arbuthnot

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Law is a bottomless pit.

Law is a bottomless pit.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the...

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the...

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it...

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it...

Boswell is the first of biographers

Boswell is the first of biographers

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry...

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry...

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of...

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of...

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty...

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty...

There is properly no history; only biography

There is properly no history; only biography

Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil.

Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil.

Biography is the only true history

Biography is the only true history

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or...

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or...

From the time I was 7 or 8 years old, we were the roughest knockabout...

From the time I was 7 or 8 years old, we were the roughest knockabout...

The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into...

The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into...

I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about...

I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about...