"Raconteur" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... interesting because of the light they throw on his own character at the beginning of his diplomatic career; we must not take them all too seriously. He was too good a raconteur not to make a good story better, and too good a letter-writer not to add something to the effect of his descriptions; besides, as he says elsewhere, he did not easily see the good side of people; his eyes were sharper for their faults than their good qualities.[4] ...
— Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire • James Wycliffe Headlam |
