Wolf Hall Cromwell Quotes

#1. Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

Ben Stein

#3. 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

Hilary Mantel

#4. 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

Hilary Mantel

#5. We need to figure out how to connect people to jobs.

Rob Portman

#6. Love is love, wherever you may find it - even when it's covered in feathers.

Alan Bradley

#7. 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

Hilary Mantel

#8. 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

Hilary Mantel

#9. It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's.

Jodi Picoult