Quotes from Ken Follett

We must help them, even if they have the plague. Our lives are not our own, to be protected like gold hidden under the earth. We have given ourselves to God, to use as he wishes, and he will end our lives when it suits his holy purpose.

You never win a vote by proving the constituent a fool. Be charming, be modest, and don't lose your temper.

They want you to scare those middling people by violence and rioting. That will get people worrying about the need to maintain order, and stop them thinking about freedom of speech.

Patria o muerte! Motherland or death! Cuba si, yanqui no!

Lorsque Merthin avait annoncé son intention de quitter la ville, l'avenir lui était soudain apparu vide de sens et elle avait compris qu'il n'y avait qu'une seule chose au monde pire que celle d'être mariée à Merthin : ne pas l'être.

consolation

people always credit prime ministers with more brains than they've got.

era mejor morir que renunciar a la esperanza de una vida mejor.

The wind and the water were carrying on their perpetual quarrel, the wind swooping down to tease the waves and the sea hissing and spitting as it crashed against the land.

Dac? porneÈ™ti o vân?toare de vr?jitoare, trebuie s? g?seÈ™ti È™i niÈ™te vr?jitoare.

Her love was not weak or inadequate. It just presented her with impossible choices.

La opinión pública puede equivocarse.

mustache, a face which

justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.

Caput tuum in ano est.

Es peligroso para un pobre intentar defender sus derechos.

mendacious, implying that he had got into a brawl

Because in the end the taxpayers of every country will pay for the war—but the politician who tells them that will never win another election.

Si os quedáis en casa, no podéis ir a la iglesia. La santidad es la mejor medicina.

The most expensive part of a building is the mistakes.

A lie goes halfway round the world while the truth is getting its boots on.

every day she would probably have

Aristocratic titles mattered less and less nowadays.

In principio erat Verbum, et Verbum erat apud Deum, et Deus erat Verbum." In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Aldred felt he could spend his life trying to comprehend that mystery.