The Armor of Light Quotes

“Love is the best thing in the world to have, and the worst to lose.” For a moment he felt terrible grief, and he had to fight back tears. “No, you’re wrong,” she said. “Even worse is to be trapped and know you will never have it.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“Quiero demostrar que puede haber industria sin explotación —dijo—. Y negocio sin corrupción”
― Ken Follett, La armadura de la luz

“he could see the statue of the angel that was said to represent Caris, the nun who had built the hospital during the terrible plague of the Black Death.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“the remote mid-Atlantic island of St. Helena, two thousand miles west of Cape Town and two thousand and five hundred miles east of Rio de Janeiro.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“Wellington had not changed: the difference was that he was now up against an enemy general of his own caliber. Bonaparte was a military genius to match Wellington.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“the square body and round face of Sal, his mother.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“Bonaparte has landed on the south coast of France at a place called Cannes, it says here.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“Soldiers find it difficult to return to normality. They’ve got used to the idea that life is cheap. They’ve killed men, and seen their friends die. Such experiences blunt the edge of compassion. The only way they can get through is to become callous. They can’t simply go back to being ordinary chaps. They need help.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“Brussels was the newly popular destination for the fashionable set, the article said. People who for years had flocked to Bath, ostensibly to take the waters, actually to dance, gossip, and show off their most beautiful clothes, were now doing all the same things in Brussels.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“more than half the entire French national army had been lost in Bonaparte’s catastrophic march on Moscow.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“But Ned Ludd may quarrel with him, one of these days.” He slurped some soup. Ned Ludd had first appeared as the mythical leader of machine breakers in the Midlands”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“They engaged with the Austrian army, and that autumn the French won battle after battle: Wertingen,”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“Absalom dishonored his father, King David.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“raffish.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“Bonaparte had plenty of money to pay for the invasion. He had sold to the United States a vast unprofitable territory the French had called Louisiane, which stretched from the Gulf of Mexico all the way to the Great Lakes on the Canadian border. President Thomas Jefferson had doubled the size of the USA”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“That horse isn’t brown, it’s bay, look at its black legs and tail.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“Friendly societies were popular. A group of people each put in a small weekly subscription, and when one of them was sick or unemployed the club paid out a modest living allowance. There were hundreds of such societies in England, perhaps thousands. The authorities encouraged them, for they supported people who might otherwise apply for parish relief.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“Trade unions will shortly be made completely illegal.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“barrels of winkles, tiny edible sea snails that had to be prized out of their shells with a pin,”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“England had changed in the past, she remembered her father saying—from Catholic to Protestant, from absolute monarchy to parliamentary rule—”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“coalition of Britain, Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and the kingdom of Naples was attacking the French empire over much of Europe and the Middle East, and getting beaten.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“None that an aspiring clergyman would dance with, anyway.” “Stop it,” she said. “Stop what?” “Being judgmental. It’s charmless. You’re a clergyman, everyone assumes that you have no interest in unsuitable women.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“the Treason Act and the Seditious Meetings Act.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“Their rent was a shilling a week, and Sal paid five of the twelve pence, as she occupied a bit less than half the building. They”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“In front of them was a plate of marrow bones, split and grilled, and the two of them were spooning out the marrow and gobbling it with relish.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“All over this country, working people are educating themselves. They join libraries and book-sharing clubs, musical societies and choirs. They go to Bible study groups and political discussion meetings.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“Anyway,” Roger said, “how are things with you?” “Well, the girl I love prefers a yellow-haired ribbon maker.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“Spade had a warehouse and workshop with a small apartment for a single man. He did a lot of weaving himself, but he also used other weavers, including one who was almost as skilled as he was, Sime Jackson. Weaving”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“had seen him talking to his friend Humphrey Frogmore a minute ago. Hornbeam had come to Kingsbridge fifteen years ago.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light

“A canon was a clergyman who served on the chapter, the governing committee of the cathedral.”
― Ken Follett, The Armor of Light