The authorities in Yorkshire have rounded up their rioters, and divided them into those to be charged with affray and manslaughter, and those to be indicted for murder and rape. Rape? Since when do food riots involve rape? But I forget, this is Yorkshire."530
Hilary MantelNo ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.
Hilary MantelThe world corrupts me, I think. Or perhaps it's just the weather. It pulls me down and makes me think like you, that one should shrink inside, down and down to a little point of light, preserving one's solitary soul like a flame under glass
Hilary MantelIt is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.
Hilary Mantel...an elegant woman, with a refinement that makes mere prettiness seem redundant.
Hilary MantelThey claim they're living the vita apostolica; but you didn't find the apostles feeling each other's bollocks.
Hilary MantelErasmus says that you should praise a ruler even for qualities he does not have. For the flattery gives him to think. And the qualities he presently lacks, he might go to work on them.
Hilary MantelA generation back, his family were called Writh, but they thought an elegant extension would give them consequence;"
Cromwell of Wriothesley
Come to that, don't pay out good money for horoscopes. If things are going to go badly for you, is that what you need to know as you saddle up?
Hilary MantelSometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.
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