Ruth

“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."
— George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)

"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
— Churchill's response”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Human life has always been lived on the edge of precipice. Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would have never begun. We are mistaken when we compare war with "normal life." Life has never been normal.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
― William Morris