Ken Follett Quotes

“Proportion is the heart of beauty.”

“Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.”

“But desperate people find courage.”

“When things are simple, fewer mistakes are made. The most expensive part of a building is the mistakes.”

“But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.”

“She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'…”

“And here's my advice to you. If you get the chance of the mad kind of love, grab it with both hands, and to hell with the consequences.”

“The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.”

“Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to another, and the world was not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that could be comprehended.”

“A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.”

“Why do you have to be the same as the others?… Most of them are stupid.”

“I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.”

“Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?”

“The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions.”

“you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.”

“Hunger is the best seasoning.”

“Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.”

“President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.”

“Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.”

“To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.”

“She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic.”

“Little things please little minds.”

“When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.”