The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy.

I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

...Your trouble, William, is that you have no ambition. You don't see that there is in life only ever one goal.' 'And what is that?' More', George said simply. 'Just more of anything. More of everything.

Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.

If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.

I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.