Quote of the day
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
Peter Quennell
Born: March 9, 1905
Died: October 27, 1993 (aged 88)
Bio: Sir Peter Courtney Quennell was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic.
Known for:
- Who's who in Shakespeare (1973)
- Byron; the years of fame (1935)
- Victorian panorama (1937)
- Byron in Italy (1941)