Цитаты из книги «Вулфхолл», страница 7
Священники не помогут попасть в рай; для общения с Богом посредники не нужны. Никакие собственные заслуги вас не спасут; только заслуги живого Христа.
Унижая и ломая человека, ничего о нем не узнаешь.
На Новый год он дарит Анне серебряные вилки с рукоятками из горного хрусталя и надеется, что она будет ими есть, а не втыкать их в людей.
When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them. If your law exacts a penalty, you must be able to enforce it – on the rich as well as the poor, the people on the Scottish borders and the Welsh marches, the men of Cornwall as well as the men of Sussex and Kent.
‘Have you ever observed that when a man gets a son he takes all the credit, and when he gets a daughter he blames his wife? And if they do not breed at all, we say it is because her womb is barren. We do not say it is because his seed is bad.’
Толпа, — произносит Кавендиш, — всегда жаждет перемен. Видя, как великий человек вознесся, она хочет его низвергнуть, просто ради новизны.
How can he explain to him? The world is not run from where he thinks. Not from his border fortresses, not even from Whitehall. The world is run from Antwerp, from Florence, from places he has never imagined; from Lisbon, from where the ships with sails of silk drift west and are burned up in the sun. Not from castle walls, but from counting houses, not by the call of the bugle but by the click of the abacus, not by the grate and click of the mechanism of the gun but by the scrape of the pen on the page of the promissory note that pays for the gun and the gunsmith and the powder and shot.
If the lion knew his own strength, it would be hard to rule him.
Childhood was like that; you are punished, then punished again for protesting. So, one learns not to complain; it's a hard lesson, but one never lost.
Когда лев осознаёт свою силу, им трудно управлять.
