Author: Hilary Mantel
Cites
- Henry VIII (1)
- IN: Bring Up the Bodies (2012) Fiction, Historical Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Am I not a man like other men? Am I not? Am I not?
FROM: to Eustache Chapuys, Imperial Ambassador, (1533), Conversation, UK
- H.M. the Queen (1)
- IN: Beyond Black (2005) Fiction, Spiritual, British
EPIGRAPH: There are powers at work in this country about which we have no knowledge.
FROM: With Paul Burrell, (1997), Conversation, UK
- Jules Michelet (1)
- IN: A Place of Greater Safety (1992) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Louis XV is named the Well-Beloved. Ten years pass. The same people believe the Well-Beloved takes baths of human blood... Avoiding Paris, ever shut up at Versailles, he finds even there too many people, too much daylight. He wants a shadowy retreat...
In a year of scarcity (they are not uncommon then) he was hunting as usual in the Forest of Senart. He met a peasant carrying a bier and inquired, "Whither he was conveying it?" "To such a place." "For a man or a woman?" "A man." "What did he die of?" "Hunger."
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
- Blaise Pascal (1)
- IN: Every Day is Mother's Day (1985) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Two errors: one, to take everything literally;
two, to take everything spiritually.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
- A. H. Clough (1)
- IN: Every Day is Mother's Day (1985) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Do not adultery commit;
Advantage rarely comes of it.
FROM: The Latest Decalogue, (1862), Poem, UK
- George MacBeth (2)
- IN: The Giant, O' Brien (1998) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: ... But then,
All crib from skulls and bones who push the pen.
Readers crave bodies. We're the resurrection men,
FROM: The Cleaver Garden, (1986), Book, UK
- IN: The Giant, O'Brien (1998) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: ...But then
All crib from skulls and bones who push the pen.
Readers crave bodies. We're the resurrection men.
FROM: The Cleaver Garden, (1986), Book, NULL
- Vitruvius (1)
- IN: Wolf Hall (2009) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: There are three kinds of scenes, one call the tragic, second the comic, third the satyric. Their decorations are different and unalike each other in scheme. Tragic scenes are delineated with columns, pediments, statues and other objects suited to kings; comic scenes exhibit private dwellings, with balconies and views representing rows of windows, after the manner of ordinary dwellings; satyric scenes are decorated with trees, caverns, mountains and other rustic objects delineated in landscape style.
FROM: De Architectura, (-27), NULL, Italy
- John Skelton (1)
- IN: Wolf Hall (2009) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: These be the names of the players:
Felicity Cloaked Collusion
Liberty Courtly Abusion
Measure Folly
Magnificence Adversity
Fancy Poverty
Counterfeit Countenance Despair
Crafty Conveyance Mischeif
Good Hope
Redress
Circumspection
Perseverance
FROM: Magnificence: An Interlude, (-27), NULL, UK
- Gertrude Stein (1)
- IN: Vacant Possession (1986) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: ...and that is what one does, one does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
FROM: Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, (1925), Letter, US
- Bible (2)
- IN: Vacant Possession (1986) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Can these bones live?
FROM: Ezekiel 37:3, (-165), Bible, NULL
- IN: A Change of Climate (1994) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Consider, what innocent ever perished, or where have the righteous been destroyed?
FROM: Job 4:7, (-165), Bible, NULL
- Charles Darwin (1)
- IN: A Change of Climate (1994) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: We are not here concerned with hopes and fears, only with the truth as far as our reason allows us to discover it. I have given the evidence to the best of my ability...
FROM: The Descent of Man, (1871), NULL, NULL
Cited by
- Patrick Ness (1)
- IN: A Monster Calls (2011) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.
FROM: An Experiment in Love, (1995), Novel, UK