Historical fiction Quote by Hilary Mantel Download Open image ““... every monarch needs a blow on the head, from time to time.”” — Hilary Mantel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Historical fiction Royals Time
“The way I tell it, he says to Fitzwilliam, you would think that the blow on the head had improved him. That he actually… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Hmmm. Someone has a high opinion of himself. Comes with being royalty, I suppose. Like funny hats and a fondness for beheadings.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I think that life has taught us that you don't have to have the crown to be the queen.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We have to be more royal than royalty itself or nobody will believe us.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I am neither young nor callow and the people need only a strong monarch to rule them, not a male one. And I need… — Jennifer McGowan Copy Share Image
“You are a Queen, so even when they push you, don't take the crown off.” — Alexandra Elle Copy Share Image
“No sooner are her glass toes thrust into the mud grave than the revolutions begin. Uprisings, fire and steel. The prince is lynched in… — Allyse Near Copy Share Image
People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The hunter is among the most innocent of men; living in the moment makes him feel pure. When he returns in the evening, his… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“But what would happen … I mean, what would be so awful … if they did meet up?” “Why, it would be like the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
At New Year's he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me. It… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“He wants to say, because Anne is not a carnal being, she is a calculating being, with a cold slick brain at work behind… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Come to that, don't pay out good money for horoscopes. If things are going to go badly for you, is that what you need… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“But my sins are my strength, he thinks; the sins I have done, that others have not even found the opportunity of committing. I… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Mirabeau: “If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall leave our… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I know a feeling like that only comes once in a lifetime, and I think you should follow your heart’s desires. I believe in… — Ahmad Ardalan Copy Share Image
“A Quote from Monty's journal in GOD MUST BE WEEPING. "I felt as anonymous as a grain of sand.” — J.D. Winston Copy Share Image
“Whatever befalls us, we will endure it together. I clutch my longbow and dagger close to my side. My last thoughts linger on my… — Mark Noce Copy Share Image
When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Altogether, the first glimpse of his bride-which should have come as no surprise to Alex, standing there looking so lean and handsome himself-nearly brought… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“People think blood red, but blood don't got no colour. Not when blood wash the floor she lying on as she scream for that… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
“She ran the harder and zagged more erratically, and in the wreckage left from the hurricane the girl misjudged her path and ran straight… — Samuel Snoek-Brown Copy Share Image
“This book would be a great addition to a classroom library, especially considering its emphases on timeless and critical topics like discrimination and prejudice.… — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
“Right now, is not the time to strike at the Romans, but it will come, and we will all rise and wipe out the… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“Love, I think, is by necessity constructed of a ladder of lies you climb together.” — Kimberly Elkins Copy Share Image
