Michael Korda Quotes

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden a...

Escapism sold books, to be sure, but not nearly as many as were sold by exposing America’s flaws and...

Lee was a born pedagogue, never happier than when his children were learning to do something the rig...

The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or n...

Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of 'Civus romanus sum' set them apart from barbarians an...

Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were h...

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to ti...

Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usual...

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a...

When I was a child in England before the war, Christmas pudding always contained at least one shiny ...

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly p...

I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to edu...

While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing...

Cats don't think they're owned by anybody. Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they'r...

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final ac...

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was ca...

Frost was no match for Nixon - far from being an intrepid and challenging interviewer, he was a push...

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

The more you can dream, the more you can do.

Of course the rich and famous tend to have more going on in their lives than ordinary people, but th...

I once attended a birthday party where Danny Kaye dropped in to entertain the birthday boy and his g...

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you...

Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altog...