French revolution Quote by Hilary Mantel

“DANTON: Could you indeed? It's you idealists who make the best tyrants. ROBESPIERRE: It seems a bit late to be having this conversation. I've…

— Hilary Mantel

“This continued a negotiation in the spirit of sinking hoods and strange smiles, all that elite malarkey.”

— Steve Aylett

“This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.”

— Renee Fleming

“My characters have a mind of their own. I'm just the vessel through which they speak.”

— Ginny Lynn Peebles

“Surprisingly he wasn't overwhelmed... He wasn't part of this strange world. He as a visitor, transient, and knew he could return to the safety…

— Phaedra Patrick

“I understand that he is made up of working cells, just like me--crowded and confused pieces of genius that have been tampered with and…

— Elizabeth Berg

“So who else volunteered?”

— Suzanne Collins

“I sensed a mutual indifference behind polite smiles and had the overwhelming impression that, more and more frequently, I was watching people who didn't…

— Krzysztof Kieślowski

“...you helped make mine joyful again. I’d lost faith in this town. I thought it was filled with people like Lula and Nathan Dugan.…

— Kirsten Miller

“quit trying to fix things and we settled into our long polite and quiet life.”

— Kent Haruf

“I am most grateful for company this evening, even of the quiet variety. I am no great conversationalist, myself.” Gray snorted. Not a conversationalist.…

— Tessa Dare

“We were all the same, it seemed to me, all of us dented and scratched and damaged, held together with pins and duct tape,…

— Greg Gifune