Quote by Thomas More

“A sharp and familiar pang pierced his heart, rattled around his ribs, and then settled in his stomach like a rotting, dead weight. He…

— Carrie Ann Ryan

With relish, Thomas More thus sketches Richard's character: He was close and secret, a deep dissembler, lowly of countenance, arrogant of heart, outwardly companionable…

— Richard III of England

“it is easy to see how Stanley’s painful poorhouse childhood may have fostered his cruel streak and the drive to place his mark on…

— Adam Hochschild

“Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of suspicious merit…

— Leigh Hunt

“His [Morel's] nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to…

— Marcel Proust

“He finds he cannot think of the dying men at all. Into his mind instead strays the picture of More on the scaffold, seen…

— Hilary Mantel

“Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?”

— William Shakespeare

“I’LL TAKE an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term. Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes…

— Randy Pausch

“The reverend began droning the oft-repeated rites and vows of the marriage ceremony. He dared not look either participant in the eye, but directed…

— Marsha Canham

“He spoke in hard and angry earnest, if a man ever did," replied the girl, shaking her head. "He is an earnest man when…

— Charles Dickens

What earnest worker, with hand and brain for the benefit of his fellowmen, could desire a more pleasing recognition of his usefulness than the…

— Washington Irving

“COTTON MATHER WAS in college when he detached Metacomet’s jaw from his skull and heard about Bacon’s Rebellion.”

— Ibram X. Kendi