William Manchester Quotes

"Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself."
-William Manchester in Actors quotes.

"It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking to Victoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons. It was superb."
-William Manchester in Relationships quotes.

"Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down there, still hot, still glowing, still red as red."
-William Manchester

"The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses."
-William Manchester

"And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity."
-William Manchester

"Its view, however, was magnificent."
-William Manchester

"Our Boeing 747 has been fleeing westward from darkened California, racing across the Pacific toward the sun, the incandescent eye of God, but slowly, three hours later than West Coast time, twilight gathers outside, veil upon lilac veil."
-William Manchester

"The destruction of Manila was one of the greatest tragedies of World War II. Of all the allied capitals only Warsaw suffered more."
-William Manchester