Quotes by : Barry Unsworth

I glimpsed the man's face with the shine of death on it. They laid him down there in the open. They had....

Wilson had been killed by everybody. It was this that made his death special, the children had been told.....

Doubt is the ally of hope, not its enemy, and together they made all the blessing he had.

Only way to live here is day by day, same as anywhere.

We desire to keep the dying and the newly dead close before our eyes so as to give them full need of....

It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin'....

The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god....

Money is sacred as everyone knows... So then must be the hunger for it and the means we use to obtain....

The kind of truth that can be asserted by argument had lost all glamour, all lustre, for him, seeming....

Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him....