Ambition Quote by C.J. Sansom Download Open image ““Never in England were there so many gentlemen and so little gentleness.”” — C.J. Sansom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambition Civility Class Gentlemen Gentleness Play on words Rudeness Society
“I’m not gentlemanly. When I’m gentle, I’m not manly, and when I’m manly, I’m not gentle.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“She's no-one special. England's full of wounded people. Quietly choking. Shrieking softly so the neighbours won't hear. You must have seen them. You've probably… — Helen Zahavi Copy Share Image
“Better be dead than living without nobility. I'm an Englishman, a man of manners.” — Deepak Rana Copy Share Image
“The little that he had said, thus far, had been sufficient to convince me that I was speaking to a gentleman. He had what… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“In Every Gentle Man there is an Emotion that can not be Compare.” — Mystery Chuks Emeremgini Copy Share Image
“For this is England where a man's neighbours will never suffer him to live entirely bereft of society, let him be as dry and… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“And you call yourself an English gentleman,' she exclaimed, savagely. 'No, that's a thing I've never done in all my life.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Perhaps men like the Everseas were commonplace here in England. Perhaps finding a beautiful titled husband would be as simple as shaking an apple… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
“prior looked at each other with mutual distaste. ‘Mortifying yourself again, Jerome?” — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
“... there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.” — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can’t escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
“I suppose we were drawn to each other because neither of us quite fitted in.” — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way. — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
“You untangle a knot with slow teasing, not sharp pulling, and believe me we have here a knot such as I have never seen.… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
“Whenever a party tells you national identity matters more than anything else in politics, that nationalism can sort out all the other problems, then… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.” — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition… — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
Work towards your goal and dont watch the post size,its either they hate,or like you.there is no room for both sides. — Isaac Buabeng Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
