69 Quotes by Antonia Fraser

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette

I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.

I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.

Why waste time instructing others when you could be reading the manuscripts yourself? The only exceptions are matters of foreign language.

As the seventh wife of Henry VIII I hope I would have managed to do the old monster in-my cooking comes to mind, as I am a hopeless cook.

One couldn't help thinking of Princess Diana when writing some passages, although I don't make a mention in the text, which would be anachronistic.

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette.

I can’t read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.