Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

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• As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Experiences

• One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • War
  • Know
  • Rules

• I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Up
  • Change
  • Year

• Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Moving
  • Speed
  • Efficiency

• The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Support
  • President
  • Vacancy

• Usually, if you notice good cinematography, then the cinematographer's failing. I try to make light feel like it's always motivated and natural in some way and hope that the lighting goes unnoticed.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Way

• If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.

  

  William McDonough
  • Moving
  • Games
  • Ends

• A noble shalt thou have, and present pay; And liquor likewise will I give to thee, And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Giving
  • Brotherhood
  • Noble

• Historically, a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Revolution
  • Rejects

• I'm called an oral historian, which is something of a joke. Oral history was here long before the pen, long before Gutenberg and the printing press. The difference is I have a tape recorder in my hand.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Differences
  • Jokes
  • Historian

• The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called theory of distribution into rent, interest, wages, and profits is only remotely related to the subject. This subject, the causes and cures for the actual distribution of capital and income among real persons, is one of the many now in need of our best efforts as scientific students of society.

  

  Irving Fisher
  • Real
  • Society
  • Science

• ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king. HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing - GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord? HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Body
  • Lord
  • Kings

• Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Shapes
  • Historian
  • Select