Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.

Hilary Mantel

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• I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • School
  • War
  • High

• Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Music
  • Process
  • Loved

• The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Important
  • Together
  • Single

• Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Value
  • Scripture

• I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.

  

  Gabriele Munter
  • Girl
  • Drawing
  • Generations

• Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Mind
  • Humans
  • Constructive

• As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.

  

  Kadir Nelson
  • Men
  • Character
  • Book

• In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?'

  

  D. A. Carson
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Want
  • Luxury
  • Circles

• Silence is a source of great strenght.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Silence
  • Source
  • Strenght

• I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Born
  • Bears

• I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.

  

  William Congreve
  • Country
  • Walking
  • Loathe

• If I want to be moved by the track, I don't want it to be sequenced, I want it to be somebody playing the guitar or piano or a horn arrangement where you can hear the breath. You can almost smell the studio while listening to the music. For me, that's what moves me emotionally, that's what I came from. I think that's always going to work best for me.

  

  Eric Benet
  • Work
  • Music
  • Guitar

• Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Music
  • God
  • Experience

• You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Truth
  • High
  • Judge

• The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.

  

  George Sarton
  • Ignorance
  • Darkness
  • Complaining

• Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Historian
  • Vices
  • Hindsight