Anything written in the French Revolution, that kind of era, is so poignant. — Katherine Langford Copy Share Image
“There is death in the folds of her skirt and blood about her feet. She is for no man.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Here, the revolution was prepared. Here it was achieved. Here all the great events were fostered. — Georges Couthon Copy Share Image
“Of course I have had to rearrange the text a bit— bugger about with it, as Hébert would say.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I want to make love to the French Revolution. Or maybe just get some head from Robespierre.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
“Gradually, you see, our people are coming into the power they have always thought is their due.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“People said— though this felt like a heresy— that they had seen Camille make Robespierre laugh.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood. — Georges Danton Copy Share Image
Lafayette saw himself as the protector of royalty; they [the king and his family] considered him its gaoler. — William Doyle Copy Share Image
“Laclos thought, how about a one-way ticket to Pennsylvania? You’d enjoy life among the Quakers. Alternatively, how about a nice dip in… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“At first they’d thought the guillotine would be a sweet, clean business, but when you have twenty, perhaps thirty heads to take… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Louis XVI started to die on June 21st 1791. For his flight tore away the veil of that false constitutional monarchy, and… — Francois Furet Copy Share Image
The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State...… — Jacques Pierre Brissot Copy Share Image
“The main thing is, the constraints have come off style. What we are saying now is that the Revolution does not proceed… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Ask Robespierre. Ask the man with the conscience which is more important, your friend or your country— ask him how he weighs… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Puritans had sought to eliminate Christmas mince pies as “idolatry in crust”; the minions of the French Revolution came down hard on… — Gerry Bowler Copy Share Image
In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Leader of a backward and ignorant mass, he was yet in the forefront of the great historical movement of his time. The… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
“Grace deeply identified with Mead’s view that ideas evolve historically. “Unlike the average American teacher of philosophy of his day,” she wrote,… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“The Jacobin Club got its name in a roundabout way. Originally a group of Bretons who came to Versailles to attend the… — Bernardine Kielty Copy Share Image
“After the defeat of the German Revolution in 1848 German Nationalism lost much of its original liberalism. Worship of State and Race… — Hugh Seton-Watson Copy Share Image
“Suppose he found that persistent unsparing voice at his elbow one day, claiming that Danton lacked probity; he had an answer, pat,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“One might say that romance with revolution died with Solzhenitsyn. The line from Bastille to the gulag is not straight, but the… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“[T]he great decided effective Majority is now for the Republic," he told Jefferson in late October 1792, but whether it would endure… — Melanie Randolph Miller Copy Share Image
“We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as of something going… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas. — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
“I can’t divide Camille’s loyalties. Who knows? He might make the wrong choice.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure. — Jacques Necker Copy Share Image
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