Anthony Holden Quotes About Literature

• What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.

  Anthony Holden

  Space, Giving, Feelings

• If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

  Anthony Holden

  Loss, Anecdotes, Literature

• Recuerdo un momento en el que Prince volvió a su antigua escuela, la Grammar School de Melbourne, y, para su horror, su antiguo profesor de música sacó un violonchelo.

  Anthony Holden

  Teacher, School, Literature

• Cuando las jóvenes princesas Isabel y Margarita estaban creciendo, esto estaba en su apogeo y la Guerra lo consolidó con fotografías de la Familia Real desayunando juntos, etc., al basar su reputación tan firmemente en este tema en particular.

  Anthony Holden

  Growing Up, War, Princess

• I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.

  Anthony Holden

  Thinking, Breathing Space, Media

• While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.

  Anthony Holden

  Book, Sunday, Literature

• I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.

  Anthony Holden

  Pensamiento, Dos, Manera

• It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

  Anthony Holden

  Insulting, Literature, Reputation

• Entre otras cosas, destacaron el detalle de que Thatcher había ofrecido a Charles la gobernación de Hong Kong en sus últimos días a cambio de que se callara sobre las ciudades del interior. En mi opinión, lideró con razón el periódico en esta historia.

  Anthony Holden

  Views, Cities, Dying

• Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

  Anthony Holden

  Wings, Literature, Pressure

• As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.

  Anthony Holden

  Escritura, Años, Literatura

• The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.

  Anthony Holden

  Years, Practice, Design

• He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.

  Anthony Holden

  Writing, Thinking, Worry

• Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes.

  Anthony Holden

  Attitude, Thinking, Years

• I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.

  Anthony Holden

  Book, Thinking, Literature

• What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.

  Anthony Holden

  Nice, People, Literature

• They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

  Anthony Holden

  Real, Intelligent, Track

• No sólo gente como yo puede escribir cosas que antes nunca se habrían publicado, sino que creo que se ha producido un cambio enormemente drástico en la opinión pública, posiblemente por las razones equivocadas.

  Anthony Holden

  Tomar, Escribir, Pensar

• Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

  Anthony Holden

  Wedding, Literature, Fairy Tale

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