151 Quotes by Stacy Schiff

Few places favor meditation more than the desert

Confronted afterward, she claimed no knowledge of that bedroom tryst; she did not intend to be held responsible for men's dreams.

Like any oppressed people, they defined themselves by what offended them, which would give New England its gritty flavor and, it has been argued, America its independence.

Blind passion was one thing, all-knowing intimacy a rarer commodity.

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

As Dio observed later, democracy sounded very well and good, “but its results are seen not to agree at all with its title. Monarchy, on the contrary, has an unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under. For it is easier to find a single excellent man than many of them.

He was universally charming, as only a writer in pursuit of a publisher can be.

When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.

Salem is in part a story of what happens when a set of unanswerable questions meets a set of unquestioned answers.