Famous Hilary Mantel Quotes
I daresay something will happen, between now and ’91, to make your fortunes look up.– Hilary Mantel
The lawyer’s world is entire unto itself, the human pared away.– Hilary Mantel
Life do your worst; we are plump of knee and mild of eye, we are douce, glib and blithe; we inherit the semi, while others inherit the wind.– Hilary Mantel
Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual passers-by. Experience is an armour.– Hilary Mantel
He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.– Hilary Mantel
Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who’d stayed at home.– Hilary Mantel
By the hairy balls of Jesus– Hilary Mantel
He saw that it was the gaps that were important, the spaces between the threads which made the pattern, and not the threads themselves.– Hilary Mantel
His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed.– Hilary Mantel
…this is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a faint tracing of spilled ash.– Hilary Mantel