I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, Th…

- A. L. Rowse

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

- A. L. Rowse

Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.

- A. L. Rowse

I would never wound a cat's feelings, no matter how downright aggressive I might be to humans.

- A. L. Rowse

This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.

- A. L. Rowse

One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.

- A. L. Rowse

Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

- A. L. Rowse

If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen.

- A. L. Rowse

A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the blue sky see…

- A. L. Rowse