Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.

She had never seen anyone like him before in her life. The clothes he wore, the sound of his voice, the expression in his eys, all made her feel that she had had z moomentary glimpse into another world – and she longed passionately to see it again, if only for a brief while.

If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness.

Death was democratic. It made no choice between the rich and the poor, the beautiful and the ugly, the young and the old.

There’s one thing I’ve always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you’re doing.

She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the cool golden ale she swallowed from a pewter tankard. She slept deeply that night and longer than she had intended...

I want to live a lot of different lives, not just one. I wish I could have lived forever, in every age and every country, seen everything and done everything and felt everything.” p. 193.

I think Americans love success – but hate the people who have it.

Adultery is not a crime, it’s an amusement.

Edward Progers was his Majesty’s Page of the Backstairs. He handled private money transactions, secret correspondence, and served in an ex-officio capacity as the King’s pimp. It was a position of no mean prestige, and of considerable activity.