![He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.](https://quotes.happiom.com/wp-content/uploads/6/hilary-mantel-quotes-125437-he-says-in-his-defence-he.png)
He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.
– Hilary Mantel
Related Quotes:
- The world moves on so fast, and we lose all chance of being the women our mothers were; we lose all understanding of what shaped them. – Hilary Mantel
- His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed. – Hilary Mantel
- Feminism hasn’t failed, it’s just never been tried. – Hilary Mantel
- Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories. – Hilary Mantel
- History is not the past -“ it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past – Hilary Mantel
- Fantasy is unconstrained by truth. – Hilary Mantel
- She lives on the fumes of whiskey and the iron in the blood of her prey. – 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
- 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
- By the hairy balls of Jesus – Hilary Mantel
- Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who’d stayed at home. – 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
- 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
- The lawyer’s world is entire unto itself, the human pared away. – Hilary Mantel
- I daresay something will happen, between now and ’91, to make your fortunes look up. – Hilary Mantel
- The Church says: the body is a sin.Science says: the body is a machine.Advertising says: The body is a business.The Body says: I am a fiesta. – Eduardo Galeano
- I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. Isummoned demons. I ate the entire little cheese, including the rind. – Patrick Rothfuss
- Well, Ben says you have to be married to get a girl pregnant. And me and Cindy are not married, so she couldn’t get pregnant, see? – Scylar Tyberius
- you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old. – Charles Bukowski
- A pessimist says the glass is half empty, an optimist says the glass is half full, and an engineer says the glass is too big. – Scott Edward Shjefte
- What’s true about you is what God says about you. Not what your mirror says. Not what your past says. – Mark Hall
- ?????c Romance is a complete women thing.. by the women for the women.. Men don’t even have an idea where women’s imaginations can reach..! – Himmilicious
- Unicorns aren’t magical and beautiful. They’re just predatory horses that have horns and love to eat virgins. – Delilah S Dawson
- Vampires, real vampires, didn’t nibble on the necks of nubile young virgins. They tore people to pieces and sucked the blood out of the chunks. – David Wellington
- Twists, turns, virgins and bad boys. I love a good YA read. Do you? – Jennifer Bardsley
- It’s a pity that virgins can’t be issued with some kind of barcode. Think of the problems that would have saved you. – Sara Craven
- If I get married, I want to be very married. – Audrey Hepburn
- The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. – Ann Landers
- Well, no, not married as such, but yes, there is a specific girl that I’m not married to. – Douglas Adams
- Some couples are married because they fell in love. Some are married because the woman fell pregnant. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- A happy marriage is a personal choice. The same way you decide to GET married? It’s the same way you decide to STAY happily married! – Ngina Otiende
- All women are many women! I’m afraid you’ve never known very much about women. – Gabrielle Zevin
- The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. – James Madison
- Dogma is a defence against the brain’s capacity for free thought based on the fear that such thought might lead to a scary place. – Joe Blow
- In my defence, I did like my ex until she cheated on me. I just thought the feeling was love. – SA Tawks
- In my defence, I did like my ex until she cheated on me. I just thought the feeling was love. – SA Tawks
- My silence is my self-defence. – Jenim Dibie
- Silence is the best defence for any argument. – Sukant Ratnakar
- What you owe your critics are your RESULTS not explanations not defence just RESULTS.Evidence terminates Arguments. – Fela Durotoye
- They put money into attack, by calling it defence. – Craig Stone