Highgate Rise Quotes

“The more we think we are sophisticated sometimes the sillier we get—and certainly the more idle people there are with nothing to fill their minds except making moral rules for everyone else, the more hypocrisy there is as to who keeps them and who doesn’t.”
― Anne Perry, Highgate Rise

“Beasts may kill one another, they may ignore the sick or distressed—but they never mock.”
― Anne Perry, Highgate Rise

“Man is a creature full of the power of the mind, if only we free it from the shackles of fear. Terrified of the new, quaking at the prospect of making a mistake. What do a few mistakes matter?”
― Anne Perry, Highgate Rise

“When you live in another land, Mr. Pitt, no matter how strange it may seem at first, it is a very short time until its people become your own, and their grief and their laughter touches you as deeply. All the differences on earth are a shadow, compared with the sameness.”
― Anne Perry, Highgate Rise