Quotes from Edward Rutherfurd

Don't you know there's another bubble as well? An expectations bubble. Bigger houses, private planes, yachts... stupid salaries and bonuses. People come to desire these things and expect them. But the expectations bubble will burst as well, as all bubbles do.

And in busy London there now grew up one of the greatest gifts that the English genius was to leave the world. For in the reign of Elizabeth I began the first and greatest flowering of the glorious English theatre.

Don't rule your husband. But arrange the conditions in which he will make his choices.

Human nature, gentleman. It is original sin that leads men to misfortune, every time. I am a speculator in the market, gentlemen, and that is part of God's plan. Men only learn through suffering. So I punish human weakness, and God rewards me.

Gotham admired Maeve. By day she managed money, and did it brilliantly, but she didn't find it satisfied her intellect. She spoke four languages. She played the piano seriously well. And she read books. Lots of them.

Never mind,' Gertchen said with a smile, 'you'll have to be pagan today.

We, the heirs of Saint Patrick, we who kept alive the Christian faith and the writings of ancient Rome when most of the world had sunk under the barbarians, we who gave the Saxons their education are to be taught a lesson in Christianity by the English?

A New Yorker can never be beat, Gorham, because he gets right back up again. Remember that.

We have all been robbed of the land we have loved for a thousand years. Do you not see that, Welshman? Can you not imagine his rage? We were not even conquered. We were deceived.

Imagine. Freedom. Always.

Oh Lord, we thank Thee for this thy gift of lobster Newburg. And grant us also, if it be Thy will, control of the Hudson Ohio Railroad.' 'But we ain't wanting control of the Hudson Ohio, Sean softly objected. 'True,' said Gabriel Love, 'but the Almighty doesn't need to know that yet.

These are graven images – idolatry. A sin." He knew it was true. This was a love of worldly beauty utterly at odds with all he knew to be Puritan and holy.

That was the trouble with being too highly born, Finbarr considered. The gods paid too much attention to you. It was ever thus in the Celtic world. Ravens would fly over the house to announce the death of a clan chief, swans would desert the lake. A king's bad judgement could affect the weather. And if you were a prince, the druids made prophesies about you from before the day you were born; and after that, there was no escape.

Why do I always have to want more?" he asked the river. And receiving no reply, he shook his head.

Novelists liked to imagine the interconnectedness of things—as though all the people in the big city were part of some great organism, their lives intertwined. He

If I had my life again, I'd act differently. It's hard for a man if he thinks his wife doesn't respect him.

La enemistad perdura. La amistad es menos segura. Sobre todo en esos tiempos.

They say that we're all made by our previous lives. Our affinities for each other were made in the deep past, and when we meet people who become important in our lives, it may seem like a chance accident—no more significant than the flapping of a butterfly's wing—but in fact a hidden force is drawing us together across the surface of the stream of life. Yuanfen, they call it.

when men believed too strongly, it made them cruel.

They say that people should be free to do as they like. That's what I think. But if they start preaching at me, they can go to hell.

An unexpected guest, enjoying such lavish hospitality, should expect to sing for his supper.

It was evident that Madame Restell not only liked to do as she pleased, but to talk about it as well.

And Dirk van Dyck the Dutchman realized that he never had been, and never would be, as proud of any child as he was of his elegant little Indian daughter at that moment.

You believe it?" "A man should always believe his wife, sir.