Bamboo Quotes

“Nicolson described the great aviator thus: ‘he is and always will be not only a schoolboy hero, but a schoolboy.’ It explains a great deal.”
― William Boyd, Bamboo

“in the newspapers. It was Churchill who coined the phrase ‘in war the truth is so important that it must be protected by a bodyguard of lies’.”
― William Boyd, Bamboo

“When he quoted Voltaire’s dictum that ‘the history of the human mind is the history of stupidity’, he meant it from the bottom of his heart.”
― William Boyd, Bamboo

“When I occasionally begin to worry about how much wine I drink each day I console myself – or excuse myself – with the thought that I drink wine like a French person. It seems to me almost sinful to sit down to eat food without a glass of wine. And how does one signal the end of the working day without opening a bottle?”
― William Boyd, Bamboo