Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with.

Hilary Mantel

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• By nature I'm sort of an introvert.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Nature
  • Sort
  • Introvert

• There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbor he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ verse latitat - the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Wisdom
  • Christian

• A gentleman is not disturbed by anything.

  

  Aristotle
  • Anything
  • Gentleman
  • Disturbed

• I like people and I like hearing their stories. The way that they deliver them is always very particular and I think that their accents are integral to that.

  

  Adam Croasdell
  • Stories
  • Particular
  • Hearing

• I know of only a few truisms, one being that if your parents didn't have children, you won't have children. Another is whenever you make a strength program easier, you will get weaker.

  

  Bill Starr
  • Children
  • Program
  • Truism

• There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.

  

  Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin
  • People
  • Going
  • Lead

• What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle.

  

  Brenda Shoshanna
  • Good
  • Turns
  • Cycle

• For a man to argue, 'I don't go to church; I pray alone,' is no wiser than if he should say, 'I have no use for symphonies; I believe only in solo music.'

  

  George Arthur Buttrick
  • Believe
  • Christian
  • Should

• If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

  

  Michael Graves
  • Style
  • Have
  • Aware

• Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Starving
  • Trace
  • Vanishes

• I think working with kids and seeing how kids are universally children - no matter what you do, they love playing on a bongo and they love drawing and they love playing - that is a great uniter.

  

  Milana Vayntrub
  • Playing
  • Drawing
  • Seeing

• This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.

  

  Terry Teachout
  • Serious
  • Study
  • Games

• Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Beautiful
  • Feeling
  • Morning

• But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed?" I asked, for no good reason. "Is Jorge right?" "Legions of scholars have wondered whether Christ laughed. The question doesn't interest me much. I believe he never laughed, because, omniscient as the son of God had to be, he knew how we Christians would behave. . . .

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Prayer
  • Dangerous
  • Answers

• There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Past
  • Dark
  • Shadow

• What I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Vision
  • Idea
  • Identifying

• Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Kind

• People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Minorities
  • Identifying
  • Persecuted