One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Bio: William Edward Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes was a Coventry motor manufacturer. He opened his first car sales agency in 1913, leading to the global Rootes Group.
