French revolution Quote by Hilary Mantel

“Georges told me he would be back, and I have no reason to disbelieve him—but perhaps you’d like to sit down here and write…

— Hilary Mantel

“Jean Valjean opened his eyes and looked at the bishop with an expression which no human tongue can describe.”

— Victor Hugo

“You must, of course. Robespierre doesn’t lie or cheat or steal, doesn’t get drunk, doesn’t fornicate—overmuch. He’s not a hedonist or a mainchancer or…

— Hilary Mantel

“The class erupted into noisy laughter and, since I was always, and have always been, determined that merriment should never be seen to be…

— Stephen Fry

“Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Already d'Anton did not believe this. He recognized it as a disclaimer that Camille would issue from time to time in the hope of…

— Hilary Mantel

“One might even say that he had the last word. Derrida had criticized him for being too Christian. And Nancy replied to Derrida that…

— Benoît Peeters

“ What do you need me for? Salander's greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was…

— Stieg Larsson

“Everybody present laughed nervously, except Lord Vetinari, who just laughed.”

— Terry Pratchett

“I resent you—” Robespierre said. His words were lost. “The People,” he shouted, “are everywhere good, and if they obstruct the Revolution—even, for example,…

— Hilary Mantel

“Angie gave me the glare -- the one that promised retribution, lameness, death, and worst of all, withholding of sexual favors, all with one…

— Giacomo Giammatteo

“Then I realized that for eighteen hundred years the Church Militant had not been a pageant, but a riot—and a suppressed riot. There,”

— G.K. Chesterton