Peter Ackroyd Quotes

Peter Ackroyd, is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Charles Chaplin and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices, and the depth of his research.

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. October 1949
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“I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.”

Pages 128-9.
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)

“The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.”

Source: English Music

“He had the satisfied countenance of a man who has never succeeded in boring himself.”

Page 45.
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)

Peter Ackroyd Quotes

“One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.”

Page 46.
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)

“Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward.”

Page 52.
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)

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