William Manchester Quotes

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

The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness. - William Manchester

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

Portly, balding, Brooks-Brothered. - 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

Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. [And] if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity. - William Manchester

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at [Pearl Harbor's] officers' mess [and] are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945. - William Manchester

Its view, however, was magnificent. - William Manchester

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

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