Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about James R. A. Bailey
James R. A. Bailey Quotes
1 Sourced Quote
Source
Report...
The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other professions; observation, initiative, determination, courage, including the courage to run away. In course of time it appeared that men who had a private axe to grind beyond the public axe of the King's enemies were especially successful.
James R. A. Bailey
Quote of the day
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Coco Chanel
James R. A. Bailey
Born:
October 23, 1919
Died:
February 29, 2000
(aged 80)
Bio:
James Richard Abe Bailey, CBE, DFC, often known as Jim Bailey, was an Anglo-South African World War II fighter pilot, writer, poet and publisher. He was the founder of Drum, the most widely read magazine in Africa.
Known for:
The End of Healing
The Sky Suspended: A Fighter Pilot's Story (1964)
The Razorbacks: A Story of Arkansas Football (1973)
The god-kings & the Titans (1973)
James R. A. Bailey on Wikipedia
Suggest an edit or a new quote
South African Publisher Quotes
Publisher Quotes
20th-century Publisher Quotes
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes