Hilary Mantel: Quotes about time

Hilary Mantel is British writer. Explore interesting quotes on time.
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“You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.”

Hilary Mantel book An Experiment in Love

Source: An Experiment in Love

Time

“You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws.”

Hilary Mantel Bring Up the Bodies

Source: Bring Up the Bodies

Thinking , Sport , Time

“Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times.”

Hilary Mantel book Wolf Hall

Wolf Hall

Time