12 Quotes & Sayings By Cj Sansom

C.J. Sansom is a British author of historical fiction. He was born in London in 1958. He spent much of his childhood in the Norfolk countryside and at a Quaker boarding school in Hertfordshire, before going on to study German and French at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he gained a First in History Read more

After leaving university he worked for ten years as a freelance journalist and book reviewer, principally for the Daily Telegraph, before becoming an editor at Penguin UK in 1987. In 1992 he published his first novel, A Winter Hanging, which was followed by seven others: The White Queen (1993), The Red Queen (1995), The Black Prince (1996), A Man Without Honour (1998), A Noble Death (1999), The King's Blood (2001) and War of the Sparrows (2003). It was the appearance of A Man Without Honour that brought him to wider public attention with its depiction of Richard III.

Since then he has been shortlisted for the CWA Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and been nominated for the Booker Prize three times, most recently for his novel King Hereafter, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2014.

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Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought. C.J. Sansom
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Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around in the world that they took as certain proof that the Apocalypse was imminent. Again like fundamentalists today, they looked on the prospect of the violent destruction of mankind without turning a hair. The remarkable similarity between the first Tudor Puritans and the fanatics among today's Christian fundamentalists extends to their selective reading of the Bible, their emphasis on the Book of Revelation, their certainty of their rightness, even to their phraseology. Where the Book of Revelation is concerned, I share the view of Guy, that the early church fathers released something very dangerous on the world when, after much deliberation, they decided to include it in the Christian canon."]. C.J. Sansom
Around thrones the thunder rolls.
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Around thrones the thunder rolls. C.J. Sansom
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We of alien looks or words must stick together. C.J. Sansom
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How men fear the chaos of the world, I thought, and the yawning eternity hereafter. So we build patterns to explain its terrible mysteries and reassure ourselves we are safe in this world and beyond. C.J. Sansom
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If a ruler who wants to act honourably is surrounded by unscrupulous men, his downfall is inevitable. C.J. Sansom
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The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can’t escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for us after we die. C.J. Sansom
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Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely. C.J. Sansom
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Six wives the King's had now.' Barak's words dragged me from my reverie. 'We can't even get one between us. C.J. Sansom
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Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around in the world that they took as certain proof that the Apocalypse was imminent. Again like fundamentalists today, they looked on the prospect of the violent destruction of mankind without turning a hair. The remarkable similarity between the first Tudor Puritans and the fanatics among today's Christian fundamentalists extends to their selective reading of the Bible, their emphasis on the Book of Revelation, their certainty of their rightness, even to their phraseology. Where the Book of Revelation is concerned, I share the view of Guy, that the early church fathers released something very dangerous on the world when, after much deliberation, they decided to include it in the Christian c. C.J. Sansom
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... there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption. C.J. Sansom