“In truth you cannot separate them, your public being and your private self.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Robespierre has never forgiven his friends the injuries he has done them, nor the kindnesses he has received from them, nor the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“You start out, you start talking, you don’t even know what you’re going to say. You don’t even know your way to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“He looks at Norris, exasperated. He seems to think that with eloquence, with sincerity, with frankness, he can change what is happening.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“What is the nature of the border between truth and lies? It is permeable and blurred because it is planted thick with… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“These are days of brutal truth from Tyndale. Saints are not your friends and they will not protect you. They cannot help… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Evidence is always partial. Facts are not truth, though they are part of it – information is not knowledge. And history is… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The Republic is six months old, and it’s flying apart. It has no cohesive force—only a monarchy has that. Surely you can… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The hunter is among the most innocent of men; living in the moment makes him feel pure. When he returns in the evening, his… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“But what would happen … I mean, what would be so awful … if they did meet up?” “Why, it would be like the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
At New Year's he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me. It… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“He wants to say, because Anne is not a carnal being, she is a calculating being, with a cold slick brain at work behind… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Come to that, don't pay out good money for horoscopes. If things are going to go badly for you, is that what you need… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“But my sins are my strength, he thinks; the sins I have done, that others have not even found the opportunity of committing. I… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Mirabeau: “If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall leave our… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“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… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
