The old interests of aristocracy – the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war – faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization. – Lytton Strachey
One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and Ive seen it three times, is Bondarchuks War and Peace. Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era. – Baz Luhrmann
While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. – Andrea Dworkin
