Quotes About William Boyd

he replied with unusual meekness – it just seems a terrible waste, Ruth, an awful waste of precious electricity. I now think he knew that he was soon going to die

It was born of self-confidence, though, this attitude – of success, not chippiness, that debilitating English disease. He

What happened to your lip, by the way?' 'I was punched in the face by a French philosopher.

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.