Edward Rutherfurd

“imaginarias a lo largo”

— Edward Rutherfurd

“However much you may fall in love, do not waste that love on a woman who is not considerate in return.”

— Edward Rutherfurd

For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I…

— Edward Rutherfurd

“but there was no need. For at that”

— Edward Rutherfurd

“The old man had smiled kindly. “It is in their nature, child. God has made woman the weaker vessel.” It was an…

— Edward Rutherfurd

She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them.…

— Edward Rutherfurd

“I'll be damned if I'm going to miss the overture and finale when I've payed good money for it... You can go,…

— Edward Rutherfurd

“I think you should weep, now. It's time.”

— Edward Rutherfurd

“It was politics and religion, in van Dyck’s private view, that made men dangerous. Trade made them wise.”

— Edward Rutherfurd

“Imagine. Freedom. Always.”

— Edward Rutherfurd

“True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dying from disease were rising.…

— Edward Rutherfurd

“Don't you know there's another bubble as well? An expectations bubble. Bigger houses, private planes, yachts... stupid salaries and bonuses. People come…

— Edward Rutherfurd

“Gotham admired Maeve. By day she managed money, and did it brilliantly, but she didn't find it satisfied her intellect. She spoke…

— Edward Rutherfurd

Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can…

— Edward Rutherfurd

Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity.

— Edward Rutherfurd

“She did not know what people of other nations ate, and did not care. For Italian food was the best.”

— Edward Rutherfurd

“About the nobles—not just de Cygne, all of them. They don’t care. Just remember that. Do what you have to do with…

— Edward Rutherfurd

Don't you know that there's another bubble as well An expectations bubble. Bigger houses private planes yachts ...... stupid salaries and bonuses.…

— Edward Rutherfurd

“Can you do it?' 'Maybe I can, and maybe I can't. But I am going to make MacDuff think that I can.…

— Edward Rutherfurd

“Brothers who are alive today, when we are gone, do not be hard, but pity us Beg God’s forgiveness for us now,…

— Edward Rutherfurd

For centuries my father's family lived on Britain's biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade with the…

— Edward Rutherfurd

“Then he noticed the belt. He pulled it out. The thing had been handed down in the family since God knows when.…

— Edward Rutherfurd

“So does nobody care about Ireland?" "Nobody. Neither King Louis, nor King Billie, nor King James." He nodded thoughtfully. "The fate of…

— Edward Rutherfurd

I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight…

— Edward Rutherfurd

“You can make money in a small way without politics. But to make big money, you need to buy the legislature. Can't…

— Edward Rutherfurd