Soldiers Quote by Hilary Mantel

“Allow the spit of the soldiers to symbolize the filth in our hearts. And then observe what Jesus does with our filth. He carries…

— Max Lucado

“Thomas Cromwell is now about fifty years old. He has a labourer's body, stocky, useful, running to fat. He has black hair, greying now,…

— Hilary Mantel

“Damn it all, Cromwell, why are you such a . . . person? It isn’t as if you could afford to be.”

— Hilary Mantel

“Cromwell, suppose you’d been away from England for seven years? If you’d been like a knight in a story, lying under an enchantment? You…

— Hilary Mantel

“The sergeant comes nearer. “It’s revolution,” he says quietly, “and who isn’t for us is against us.” Willy laughs. “Bloody fine revolution, no mistake!…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“The End of World War One Out of the scraped surface of the land men began to emerge, like puppies from the slit of…

— Sharon Olds

“Right, Thomas Cromwell," she said. "Make a note of this. No strange Dutch drinks. No women. No banned preachers in cellars. I know what…

— Hilary Mantel

“Well your full of cow pies up to your ears! I don't give way on the orders of rabble, or bow to Devall's uppity…

— Janny Wurts

“All along the line,' said the volunteer, pulling the blanket over him, 'everything in the army stinks of rottenness. Up till now the wide-eyed…

— Jaroslav Hašek

“In this place, upwards of 400,000 British men were going to be killed. They'd lost 20,000 just the other day. He sucked a grim…

— Paul Cornell

“He looked the Prince up and down, like a hangman taking his measurements. 'Of course there will be a revolution,' he said. 'You are…

— Hilary Mantel

“He hadn’t finished: ‘Let us bring down our righteous anger against the festering scum who by their cowardice and sloth have reduced the British…

— John Sweeney