WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:12:28 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg pr – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Clarke, Susanna -- Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (2004) https://wist.info/clarke-susanna/25235/ https://wist.info/clarke-susanna/25235/#respond Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:17:48 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=25235 The Foreign Secretary was a quite peerless orator. No matter how low the Government stood in the estimation of everyone, when the Foreign Secretary stood up and spoke — ah! how different everything seemed then! How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).


Susanna Clarke (b. 1949) British author
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