Famous Hilary Mantel Quotes

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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    …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