Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Davenport-Hines

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Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines is a British historian and literary biographer, best known for his biography of the poet W. H. Auden. Davenport-Hines is also an expert on the Cambridge economist John Maynard Keynes. Davenport-Hines has published more than twenty books and essays on a variety of historical, political, and philosophical topics over the course of his career.

British - Biographer | Born: June 21, 1953

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Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness.

Richard Davenport-Hines

Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does not rest on discrimination, that penalises people who discriminate, or rewards the undiscriminating, is worth very little and has only callow, childish pleasures.

Richard Davenport-Hines

Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to devise clever, defiant ways to breach them.

Richard Davenport-Hines

Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Davenport-Hines

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