Edward Rutherfurd Quotes

Imagine. Freedom. Always.

True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dying from disease were rising. So few potatoes had been planted that, even if they escaped bight, the...

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For the increase in the number of my Brennan cousins, Conall remarked dryly, we must thank the potato.

Don't you know there's another bubble as well? An expectations bubble. Bigger houses, private planes, yachts... stupid salaries and bonuses. People come to desire these things and expect them. But the...

What has he done? he asked. The young man himself began to respond, but the youths cut him off. He started the Fire of London, sir, they cried. Even the day before, the rumours had begun. A fire like...

The English Church, it was claimed, was Catholicism purified and reformed. And what was the nature of this reform? The truth was that nobody, least of all Henry himself, had much idea.

England’s Protestant, they declared. Why else did we throw out the Stuarts? The government and their placemen are selling us down the river. If they’ll give way over Catholics, what will they give way...

They say that people should be free to do as they like. That’s what I think. But if they start preaching at me, they can go to hell.

Familia de Penny, son ficticias, al igual que el papel que

Unfortunately he’s just sold all his stock. We gave him the funds today. Sold everything? I tried to persuade him not to, but he came in on Monday and said he’d decided not to tempt fate. The clerk sm...

Don’t rule your husband. But arrange the conditions in which he will make his choices.

Then,

A New Yorker can never be beat, Gorham, because he gets right back up again. Remember that.

Aunque tuvo otros pretendientes, nunca encontró a ninguno que le interesara. —Su padre se encogió de hombros—. Es una mujer atractiva, pero demasiado independiente». Marc

However much you may fall in love, do not waste that love on a woman who is not considerate in return.

The fault in his son lay not in his nature, which was honorable, but in his perceptions, which were limited.

For it is a fact that the roots of a tree mirror the spreading crown of its branches. As the branches spread out, so do the roots in proportion. If the tree’s branches die back, the roots do too. As a...

This Plantagenet king comes from the devil.

All through her childhood, Sarah had known what food she would eat. Friday was chicken. Wednesday lamb chops. That was the meat. Tuesdays meant fish, and Thursdays egg salad and potato latkes. Only Mo...

La Iglesia existe con el fin de atraer a los hombres a Dios, pero los obispos y los papas son hombres, igual que los reyes, y experimentan las mismas pasiones.