C.J. Sansom Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
1952

Christopher John "C.J." Sansom is a Scottish-born writer of historical crime novels. He was born in 1952 in Edinburgh and was educated at the University of Birmingham, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. After working in a variety of jobs, he decided to retrain as a solicitor. He practised in Sussex as a lawyer for the disadvantaged, before leaving the legal profession to become a full-time writer. He currently lives in Sussex.

The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can’t escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for us after we die.

C.J. Sansom
- God
- Thinking
- Giving
If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

C.J. Sansom
- Life
- Door
- Missing

Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.

C.J. Sansom
We of alien looks or words must stick together.

C.J. Sansom
- Together
- Words
- Community
The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.

C.J. Sansom
- Great
- Mind
- Power
But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.

C.J. Sansom
- Certain
- Pure
- Motive
Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.

C.J. Sansom
- God
- Men
- Book
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime: the threat of imprisonment, torture and death; the threat to one's family, the terror of being alone in a hostile world.

C.J. Sansom
- World
- Family
- Hope

Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're not good, the good people will throw you to the wolves. So you might as well just be bad

C.J. Sansom
- People
- Good
- Bad
Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

C.J. Sansom
It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.

C.J. Sansom
- People
- Life
- World
In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.

C.J. Sansom
- Men
- Healthy
- Worship