Author: Simon Schama

Quotes

The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.

The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.

- Simon Schama

In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics.

In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics.

- Simon Schama

I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.

I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.

- Simon Schama

It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium.

It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium.

- Simon Schama

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.

- Simon Schama

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