571 Quotes by Hilary Mantel

Beneath every history, another history.

A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.

Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

Intrigue feeds on itself; conspiracies have neither mother nor father, and yet they thrive: the only thing to know is that no one knows anything. Though.

I think the wolves all died when the great forests were cut down. That howling you hear is only the Londoners.

The dead do not negotiate.

Why would I trust a man with my business, if he could not manage his own?

Memory isn’t a theme; it’s part of the human condition.