Phaedo - P:114

Simmias, one must make every effort to share in virtue and wisdom in one's life, for the reward is beautiful and the hope is great.

Helen - V:120

HELEN

Helen, you wretch, the Trojans died for you!

Monsieur Pain - pg. 44

"And what are you? A detective?"

"No, god forbid ... Do I look like a detective? I'm just trying to return something that belongs to those two doctors."

Wolf Hall - pg. 635

'Oh yes, I am very much afraid, I am not a bold and robust man such as yourself, I cannot help but rehearse it in my mind. But I will only feel it for a moment, and God will not let me remember it afterwards.'

'I am glad I am not like you.'

'Undoubtedly. Or you would be sitting here.'

'I mean, my mind fixed on the next world. I realise you see no prospect of improving this one.'

'And you do?'

Wolf Hall - pg. 62

'No. Thomas More.'

'But, a layman and a commoner? And when he's so opposed in the matter of the king's marriage suit.'

He nodes, yes, yes, it will be More. The king is known for putting out his conscience to high bidders. Perhaps he hopes to be saved from himself.

The Book And The Brotherhood - pg. 294

'Perhaps you don't mind the idea of a world without books?'

'It's inevitable, so it must be understood, it must be embraced, even loved.'

'So after all you turn out to be a historical materialist! What about your book?'

'It will perish with the rest. Plato, Shakespeare, Hegel, they'll all burn, and I shall burn too. But before that my book will have had a certain influence, that's its point, that's what I've been striving for all these years, that little bit of influence. That's what's worth doing, and it's the only thing that's worth doing now, to look at the future and make some sense of it and touch it. Look, Gerard, I don't think I'm God, I don't think I'm Hegel, I don't even think I'm Feuerbach -'"

Hopscotch - pg. 89

"The only dangers for me are metaphysical." Oliviera said.

The Dreams Of Tipu Sultan

TIPU: And a defeated General! Poornaiya, you are a Brahman.
You ride a horse and lead a battalion, but you think like a pedant.
You do not understand a soldier. This man Cornwallis - he led
the English armies in the Americas and he lost the war! To a
farmer called Washington! And his Government sends him to India -

POORNAIYA: Let's pray that he understands Peace, Your Majesty.

TIPU: He understands nothing but the ignominy of defeat,
of surrender. Can't you imagine the whispers, the sly smiles,
the nudges that must have greeted the Lord in London? Even
if no slights were intended, he would have imagined them. He
must, if he is a soldier!! Can't you see him tossing and turning
in bed, thinking only if refurbishing his honour? And he
knows - and I know - that to get the stain off his reputation he
needs to vanquish one man in India - only one - Tipu Sultan!

The Slave - pg. 18

"Where is the Torah? In Josefov?"
"The Torah is everywhere."
"How can it be everywhere?"
"The Torah tells how a man should conduct himself."

The Sea, The Sea - pg. 350

'A rather unattractive sort of courage,' I said.
'There was a rather unattractive sort of war on,' said James.