Quotes About Thomas Cromwell

#1. The king's council, and obliged him, Thomas Cromwell, by

Hilary Mantel

#2. Thomas More syas that the imperial troops, for their enjoyment, are roasting live babies on spits. Oh, he would! says Thomas Cromwell. Listen, soldiers don't do that. They're too busy carrying away everything they can turn into ready money.

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#3. He would rather know what's outside, see the summer in its sad blowing wreckage, than cower behind the blind and wonder what the damage is. - Thomas Cromwell - Wolf Hall

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#4. One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.

Wietse Venema

#5. Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending ... you're still enthralled.
(Interview BBC Radio 4 Today 17 October 2012.)

Hilary Mantel

#6. The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.

Taylor Mali

#7. You could call it that [urban Western], I guess, you could certainly call it that. A lot of these types of films are, really, if you get down to the core most suspense thrillers in this genre, the Western is sort of the birth of it all.

Antoine Fuqua

#8. He thinks of making his fortune. We all know that money sticks to yours hands.
No, It passes through them, alas.

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#9. No self-respecting bird in good health would allow its feathers to look ruffled. No confident cougar would let its fur long remain matted and dirty.

Terry Goodkind

#10. It's precisely because we're people that we have the power to change our own fate. So let's all change together.

Gackt

#11. God knows the end from the beginning.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed.

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#13. The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world,

Michel Chossudovsky

#14. The gift blesses the giver.

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#15. Told me if I did not smell of the fire then I smelled of the frying pan.

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#16. Oh, justice is what you're threatened with.

Thomas Cromwell

#17. Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.

John Nelson Darby

#18. This man was no pampered gentleman, born to a life of softness. No, this man was a brawler, a scrapper, a street fighter. A survivor.

V.E. Lynne

#19. The first show I ever played was the International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia, Washington. It was girl night, and I was in Heavens To Betsy. I had just turned 18.

Corin Tucker

#20. When the cardinal came to a closed door he would flatter it
oh beautiful yielding door! Then he would try tricking it open. And you are just the same, just the same." He pours himself some of the duke's present. "But in the last resort, you just kick it in.

Hilary Mantel

#21. Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience.

Gustav Krupp

#22. I think, if you're going to kill a man, do it. Don't write him a letter about it. Don't bluster and threaten and put him on his guard.

Hilary Mantel

#23. Be reasonable, my lord. Once you.ve done it, you'll want to do it all the time. For about three years. That's the way it goes. And your father has other work in mind for you.
pg.480

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#24. Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.

Thomas Gray

#25. No son wishes to see his son less powerful than himself.

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#26. Fantasy is unconstrained by truth.

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#27. You know he will take the credit for your good ideas, and you the blame for his bad ones? When fortune turns against you, you will feel her lash: you always, he never.
One day, when you are still adjusting your harness, you will look up and see him thundering downhill.
pg. 495

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#28. Henry stirs into life. 'Do I retain you for what is easy? Do you think it is for your personal beauty? The charm of your presence? I keep you, Master Cromwell, because you are as cunning as a bag of serpents. But do not be a viper in my bosom. You know my decision. Execute it.'
pg. 585

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#29. When you write, you are telling a story ... to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself ... over and over again.

Kai Strand

#30. Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.

James Patterson

#31. So now get up.'
Felled, dazed, silent, he has fallen; knocked full length on the cobbles of the yard. His head turns sideways; his eyes are turned toward the gate, as if someone might arrive to help him out. One blow, properly placed, could kill him now.

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#32. Poetry is the memory of language

Jacques Roubaud

#33. Scatter her enemies, And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks.

Mahatma Gandhi

#34. The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect.

Thomas Friedman

#35. Those who fail the king do not die in their beds.

V.E. Lynne