Top 30 Sarah Dunant Quotes
#1. Ambassadors, of course, do not blush. It is a requisite of the job that they can sustain any manner of insult without any visible change at all to their face.
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#2. What was once the language of secrecy is now the language of power.
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#3. Someone told me much later that you always know the people who are going to make a difference in your life, from the very first time you set eyes on them, even if you do not like them at all. And I had noticed him, as he had me. God help us.
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#4. A voice yelled after me but it was wayward and might have been a cry out of someone's nightmare.
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#6. It is the ones who keep you in thrall to more than their snatches who command the houses and the gowns to go with them. And for that they have first to love themselves.
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#8. Any man in love with Cesare is already half in love with his sister. Now, when [Pedro Calderon] shuts his eyes, he cannot see anything else.
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#9. So if we could not have love, my husband and I, then at least I could have alchemy.
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#10. Why I thought, must there always be two conversations? one that women have when there are men present & one we have when we are alone?
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#11. No one bothered dressing up in priests' robes, for even in chaos hierarchy rules and their cloth wasn't rich enough.
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#12. Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used to stay in every weeknight in the hope that he might get free and call me. It felt like I had a disease I didn't want to get rid of. I suppose that's a definition of obsession, yes.
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#13. And, such was the sound that the chorus made together, that to have been a part of it at all was enough for me.
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#14. Johannes Burchard. The only man in Rome whose face remains the same be it perfume or shit under his nose.
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#15. Venice the peaceful demands Venice the just.
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#16. She is only a young woman who did not want to become a nun. The world is full of them.
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#17. Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych in which their profiles confronted each other, their noses as powerful as their personalities.
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#18. God always seeth man from heaven and the angels report to Him every hour.
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#19. Interesting, I thought, how quickly history becomes stories rather than reality; one step already from the truth.
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#20. In the chaos of war, I would have looked simply small, and therefore neither a promise nor a threat.
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#22. The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.
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#23. If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.
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#24. Uncertainty is more contagious than the plague. Cesare,
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#25. Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.
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#26. But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when it knows the least.
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#27. Family. The greatest loyalty after God in the world.
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#28. There have been none like us before. And there will be none afterwards. Be careful what you write.
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#30. If you love a man for his honesty, you cannot become angry when he shows it.
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