Quotes from Ken Follett

Dos tigres no pueden vivir en la misma montaña. Proverbio chino

Now there was something in the way Ned stood and looked that undermined Rollo's sense of superiority.

He is now king of Scotland in all but legitimacy!

He was a good man, ma'am,' she said. 'Never raised a hand to me.' The Queen did not know what to say about a man whose virtue was that he did not beat his wife.

My father hated people who preached about morality. We're all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn't count. It's when you want so badly to do something wrong - when you're about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighbor's wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible trouble - that's when you need the rules.

Few of them had a father like Billy's da to tell them that the world depicted by their schoolteachers was a fantasy. But

La convicción religiosa puede destruir un tímido deseo, pero nada puede obstaculizar una pasión genuina.»

When the Roman Empire declined, Britain went backward. As the Roman villas crumbled, the people built one-room wooden dwellings without chimneys. The technology of Roman pottery—important for storing food—was mostly lost. Literacy declined. This period is sometimes called the Dark Ages, and progress was painfully slow for five hundred years. Then, at last, things started to change

Se întâmplase de-a lungul epocilor în care tot ceea ce le era de folos oamenilor ca s?-È™i m?reasc? productivitatea ori chiar s? o continue fusese acaparat de cei puÈ›ini.

Supongo que me pregunto si la política podría separarnos.

Then he told himself to be calm: this took place a thousand times a day all over the world. He did not need to understand it. The baby would come without his help.

The Romance of Alexander.

unas manchas de sangre tiñeron la nieve; de un rojo brillante a juego con la bandera que ondeaba encima.

Babies grow from a seed. The seed comes out of a man's prick and is planted in a woman's cunny.

Mary was not in the least tired.

N-are niciun rost s? pricepi ce este greÈ™it, îÈ™i spuse ea, dac? nu iei nicio m?sur?.

underground

Mankind is fallible, so we should not rely on our own reasoning. We cannot help to understand the world - all we can do is stand amazed at God's creation. True knowledge comes only from revelation. We should not question received wisdom.

The first book that really appealed to Jack told the whole history of the world from the Creation to the founding of Kingsbridge Priory, and when he finished it he felt he knew everything that had ever happened.

Elizabeth had always been capricious. The blue sky of her approval could turn in an instant to lowering black clouds—and back again.

Privée de pont, l'une des plus grandes villes d'Angleterre mourrait et le prieuré, qui était son poumon, verrait décroître son prestige jusqu'à n'être plus qu'un avant-poste isolé au fin fond de la campagne, où quelques moines continueraient à accomplir leurs dévotions dans le désert sonore d'une cathédrale décrépite.

Are we in danger of becoming the world's policeman

If we're all aggressive, obedient solders [sic], who's going to write the poems and play the blues and go on anti-war protest marches?

pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.