30 Quotes by Sarah Dunant

Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.

Make enemies if you have to- and you will- but always make sure the most powerful stay your friends.

Sometimes it is useful to fear something too much, for it makes the real thing quite bearable.

If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.

Birth, coupling, death. The more she thinks about it, the more it seems that that is all there is: a wheel turning over and over, moving so fast that sometimes you cannot even make out the spokes. It is a wonder there is any room for poetry.

I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I wonder how we all learn so quickly to speak it, given that we begin when we are barely old enough to stand upright. I have no memory of finding it hard. Indeed, I have no memory of it at all.

you draw"(the painter)

One enemy at the time.

...a voice yelled after me but it was wayward and might have been a cry out of someone's nightmare.