Quotes by : Iain Pears

He had volunteered early, rather than waiting to be conscripted, for he felt a duty and an obligation....

He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was....

For, in his opinion, to study nature was a form of worship.

Lying," he said out loud, hoping no one would hear. "I need to lie. Teach me, quickly."I wouldn't if....

I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began."And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness....

[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls].....

She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You....

Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already....

Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities....

The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind."(Marco)