Quotes by : Iain Pears

She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free.....

Politics bores you?" Bronsen said.Julien smiled. "It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not that I haven't....

Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it....

When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame....

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].....

Although of course I am aware that it changes colour in a jar. But we know why, surely? The heavier melancholic....

Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture....

Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought....

[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just,....