Quotes by : Hilary Mantel

Law of Suspects. Suspects are those: who have in any way aided tyranny (royal tyranny, Brissotin tyranny...);....

Life do your worst; we are plump of knee and mild of eye, we are douce, glib and blithe; we inherit the....

If you help load a cart you get a ride in it, as often as not. It gives him to think, how bad people....

No man as godly as George, the only fault he finds with God is that he made folk with too few orifices.....

Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be....

He runs his eye along the row of knives in their racks, the cleavers for splitting bones. He picks one....

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

I daresay something will happen, between now and ’91, to make your fortunes look up.

But it is no use to justify yourself. It is no good to explain. It is weak to be anecdotal. It is wise....

This is Maximilien de Robespierre, barrister-at-law: unmarried, personable, a young man with all his....