Simon Schama Quotes

We find a way (in each country) to contain our differences of opinion without annihilating one another. - Simon Schama

She writes family scenes better than anyone else I can think of. - Simon Schama

My father read Dickens out loud. My mother would say 'We're going to the workhouse'. This to me was real. I was headed for the gruel. - Simon Schama

It was a conscious decision by (Sir Robert) Walpole and others to replace religion with making money. Elections replaced battles, and the fights were over party politics. - Simon Schama

He was a frustrated theatrical impresario, basically. - Simon Schama

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated. - Simon Schama

A terrible vanity, really, but as you get older... - Simon Schama

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