62 Quotes by Edward Rutherfurd

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.

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.

This Plantagenet king comes from the devil.

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

Unfortunately he’s just sold all his stock. We gave him the funds today.” “Sold everything?” “I tried to persuade him not to, but he came in on Monday and said he’d decided not to tempt fate.” The clerk smiled. “Said he’d had a sign from St. Anthony.

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

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.

The whole area, manor house, Clink, all eighteen brothels and the handsome profits therefrom, belonged to and was ruled by the bishop.

I think you should weep, now. It’s time.