Quotes by : C.J. Sansom

Six wives the King's had now.' Barak's words dragged me from my reverie. 'We can't even get one between....

Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that....

The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can’t escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God....

Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is....

If a ruler who wants to act honourably is surrounded by unscrupulous men, his downfall is inevitable.....

How men fear the chaos of the world, I thought, and the yawning eternity hereafter. So we build patterns....

Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that....

We of alien looks or words must stick together.

Around thrones the thunder rolls.

... there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.