“I've studied kings, so I'm very aware of the feet of clay of authority...” — David Starkey Quote

“I've studied kings, so I'm very aware of the feet of clay of authority.”

“In the early 20th century the monarchy was held up as the archetypical virtuous British family. In the late 20th century it became the most wonderful symbol of the complete re-engineering of family structures.”

“Most of Britain is a monoculture. You think London is Britain, it isn't.”

“I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.”

“Authority forgets a dying king.”

“The spirits of Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld and Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebbing waft through the text to lend 'The Third Sex' an air of scientific authority.”