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Top 5 William Donaldson Quotes (2024 Update)

William Donaldson Quote: “The Queen is so poor she has to spend her own money.”

1. “The Queen is so poor she has to spend her own money.”

— William Donaldson

William Donaldson Quote: “The cream of a generation was lost in the mud of Flanders. Etonians went over the top with the Illiad in their knapsacks and Athens in their hearts. To protest that such men were statistically not even a trace among the British soldiers killed is to miss the point. At all times the great majority of people have been ignorant of the classics; but the men who mattered; who governed, declared wars and resisted innovation have always had Latin and Greek.”

2. “The cream of a generation was lost in the mud of Flanders. Etonians went over the top with the Illiad in their knapsacks and Athens in their hearts. To protest that such men were statistically not even a trace among the British soldiers killed is to miss the point. At all times the great majority of people have been ignorant of the classics; but the men who mattered; who governed, declared wars and resisted innovation have always had Latin and Greek.”

— William Donaldson

William Donaldson Quote: “Even Mahatma Gandhi – hardly a comfortable character – always wore a bowler hat with his loin cloth when practising as a barrister in London.”

3. “Even Mahatma Gandhi – hardly a comfortable character – always wore a bowler hat with his loin cloth when practising as a barrister in London.”

— William Donaldson

William Donaldson Quote: “Power is the best shield that the disordered personality can conceive against being revealed as the laughing stock he secretly suspects himself to be.”

4. “Power is the best shield that the disordered personality can conceive against being revealed as the laughing stock he secretly suspects himself to be.”

— William Donaldson

William Donaldson Quote: “On the whole popular fiction in Victorian Scotland is not overwhelmingly backward-looking; it is not obsessed by rural themes; it does not shrink from urbanisation or its problems; it is not idyllic in its approach; it does not treat the common people as comic or quaint. The second half of the nineteenth century is not a period of creative trauma or linguistic decline; it is one of the richest and most vital episodes in the history of Scottish popular culture.”

5. “On the whole popular fiction in Victorian Scotland is not overwhelmingly backward-looking; it is not obsessed by rural themes; it does not shrink from urbanisation or its problems; it is not idyllic in its approach; it does not treat the common people as comic or quaint. The second half of the nineteenth century is not a period of creative trauma or linguistic decline; it is one of the richest and most vital episodes in the history of Scottish popular culture.”

— William Donaldson

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