Best Hilary Mantel Quotations
- Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to… Back Door
- As Danton sees it, the most bizarre aspect of Camille's character is his desire to scribble over every blank surface; he sees a guileless piece… Aspect
- She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'" "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful. Doe
- The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch,… Almost Anything
- Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you… Ambiguities
- For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before. Breeding
- It's not easy to diagnose because depending where the endometrial deposits are, the symptoms can be quite different. It's an unrecognized problem among teenage girls,… Allowed
- Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories. All
- [T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale. Any
- You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with… All
- If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469 Degree
- No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This… Able
- It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be generous. Full bellies… Bellies
- Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart. Apart
- Rafe asks him, could the king's freedom be obtained, sir, with more economy of means? Less bloodshed? Look, he says: once you have exhausted the… Asks
- He turns to the painting. "I fear Mark was right." "Who is Mark?" "A silly little boy who runs after George Boleyn. I once heard… Boleyn
- You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, in its strings, holds… Bowl
- He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master the cardinal. But… Breathing
- The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth. Argument
- I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the background… Accounts
- My first two novels were very black comedies. Black
- My thoughts have been the thing I can rely on. Been
- What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different. Been
- Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties. Anxieties
- Writing comes from that territory of being invalidated. But I had a sense of purpose, too. I wanted to stop apologising for my health, and… Apologising
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