Revolution Quotes by Hilary Mantel

13 Revolution quotes by Hilary Mantel

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Hilary Mantel brings a novelist’s eye to the tumult of revolt, distilling grand events into human moments. This set of thirteen quotes offers a compact yet vivid portrait of how she perceives the forces that reshape societies.

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“The Revolution is your bride,” he said. “As the Church is the Bride of Christ.”

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“The Revolution has got frozen up. They have frozen it up with their talk of moderation. To stand still in Revolution is…

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“I daresay something will happen, between now and ’91, to make your fortunes look up.”

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When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in…

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“This revolution - will it be a living?' 'We must hope so. Look, I have to go, I'm visiting a client. He's…

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“He looked the Prince up and down, like a hangman taking his measurements. 'Of course there will be a revolution,' he said.…

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“The main thing is, the constraints have come off style. What we are saying now is that the Revolution does not proceed…

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“You would save them. If you could.” “No. There are periods in revolution when to live is a crime, and people must…

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Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to…

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“Life’s going to change. You thought it already had? Not nearly as much as it’s going to change now. Everything you disapprove…

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He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing…

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“Your fear is, that if you marry Adèle, you will love her. If you have children, you will love them more than…

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“I resent you—” Robespierre said. His words were lost. “The People,” he shouted, “are everywhere good, and if they obstruct the Revolution—even,…

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“But my sins are my strength, he thinks; the sins I have done, that others have not even found the opportunity of committing. I…

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“Mirabeau: “If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall leave our…

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“Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she…

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“Sion calls Anne an eel, he calls her a slippery dipper from the slime, and he remembers what the cardinal had called her: my…

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I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the…

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“At the front, people die for their mistakes. Why should politicians be more gently treated? They made the war. They deserve a dozen deaths,…

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