Marie Antoinette: The Journey
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“She saw that supreme dignity - and love - lay in tolerance.”
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“People cannot help their predilections, although they may conceal them.”
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“Kings who become prisoners are not far from death.”
Source: Marie Antoinette: The Journey
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“As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.”
“I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.”
Source: Quiet as a Nun
“I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette”
Source: Marie Antoinette
“Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.”
“The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.”
“It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.”
“That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.”
“I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.”
“I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.”
“I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.”
“People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.”
“Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.”
“My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.”
“Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.”
“King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.”
“If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.”
“I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.”