“I had always detested the meddlesome alarmist, who veils ignorance under noisiness, and for ever wails his chant of lugubrious pessimism.”
Quotes by Erskine Childers
“A keen wind from the west struck our faces, and as swiftly as it had come the fog rolled away from us, in one mighty mass, stripping clean and pure the starry dome of heaven...”
Erskine ChildersErskine Childers was an influential English-born Irish nationalist and writer, best known for his novel 'The Riddle of the Sands,' published in 1903. This work is often credited with pioneering the ge...