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Things Quotes by Hilary Mantel
- When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real…
- Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels…
- This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this…
- 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,…
- Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
- 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…
- 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…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle