Author: John Lescroart

Cites

• Aaron Moore (1)
  • IN: Betrayal (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A man's death is his own business
    FROM: Aaron Moore, First Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps, (None), NULL, US
• Henry Louis Mencken (1)
  • IN: Betrayal (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts.
    FROM: Prejudices: Third Series, (1922), Book, US
• Hippocrates (1)
  • IN: The Oath (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: will follow that method of treatment which… I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel…
    FROM: The Hippocratic Oath, (-450), Oath, Greece
• Bible (1)
  • IN: The Oath (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For the love of money is the root of all evils.
    FROM: 1 Timothy 6:10, (100), Bible, NULL
• The Talmud (1)
  • IN: Guilt (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We do not see things as they are; We see things as we are.
    FROM: Talmud, (500), The Talmud, NULL
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Mercy Rule (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Suffering is a fact of life; suffering is caused by attachment.
    FROM: The First and Second Noble Truths of Buddhism, (None), NULL, India/China
• François de la Rochefoucauld (1)
  • IN: The Second Chair (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Book, France
• Abraham Lincoln (1)
  • IN: A Certain Justice (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.
    FROM: Speeches and Writings 1832–1858, (1858), Speech, US
• Marion Berry (1)
  • IN: A Certain Justice (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To those white people who have whatever hang-ups they have, get over it.
    FROM: NULL, (1994), Speech, US
• Barbara Kingsolver (1)
  • IN: A Certain Justice (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
    FROM: Animal Dreams, (1990), Novel, US
• Thomas Browne (1)
  • IN: The Hearing (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Where life is more terrible than death, It is then the truest valor to want to live.
    FROM: Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings, (1831), Book, UK
• William Butler Yeats (1)
  • IN: Dead Irish (1989) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink.
    FROM: Diary, (1909), Book, Ireland
• Immanuel Kant (1)
  • IN: The Motive (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Out of the crooked tree of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.
    FROM: Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), Proposition 6, (1784), Book, Germany
• George Berkeley (1)
  • IN: The Suspect (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
    FROM: Siris, Paragraph 368, (1744), Book, Ireland
• Elbert Hubbard (1)
  • IN: A Plague of Secrets (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
    FROM: Love, Life and Work, (1988), Book, US
• Robert Wilson (1)
  • IN: The Hunt Club (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You think you know yourself until things start happening, until you lose the insulation of normality.
    FROM: A Small Death in Lisbon, (1999), Novel, US
• Alexander McCall Smith (1)
  • IN: Treasure Hunt (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is one thing… that business between men and women, and there are many other more important things, including food.
    FROM: The Miracle at Speedy Motors, (2008), Novel, UK
• Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1)
  • IN: Hard Evidence (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based on imperfect knowledge.
    FROM: NULL, (1919), NULL, US
• P Geraldy (1)
  • IN: The 13th Juror (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We would give her more consideration, when we judge a woman, if we knew how difficult it is to be a woman.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• George Bernard Shaw (1)
  • IN: The 13th Juror (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
    FROM: The Philanderer, (1898), Play, Ireland
• Matthew Arnold (1)
  • IN: The First Law (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept by confused alarums of struggle and flight Where ignorant armies clash by night.
    FROM: Dover Beach, (1867), Poem, UK
• Cornelia Otis Skinner (1)
  • IN: The Keeper (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Richard Dawkins (1)
  • IN: Damage (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
    FROM: River Out of Eden, (1995), Book, UK
• Ernest Hemingway (1)
  • IN: Damage (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Life is a cheap thing beside a man's work.
    FROM: Islands in the Stream, (1970), Novel, US
• Ken Keyes Jr. (1)
  • IN: The Fall (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Henry Kissinger (1)
  • IN: Fatal (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What extraordinary vehicles destiny selects to accomplish its design.
    FROM: White House Years, (1979), Book, US
• Lucretius (1)
  • IN: The Ophelia Cut (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
    FROM: De Rerum Natura, (-50), Poem, Italy
• John Irving (1)
  • IN: The Hunter (1953) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: [The Under Toad] was the color of bad weather. It was the size of an automobile.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US