Quotes by Ken Follett

“you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.”

“Hard work should be rewarded by good food.”

“Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.”

“He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life.”

“Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.”

“Aliena's brother, Richard, sometimes reminded her of her father, with a look or a gesture, and that was when she felt a surge of affection.”

“It pleased Aliena that they were all together: she and Jack and their children, and Jack's mother, and Aliena's brother, and Martha. It was quite like an ordinary family, and Aliena could almost fo...”

“... people always credit prime ministers with more brains than they've got.”

“They did not suspect her for a moment. It did not occur to them that a woman could be dangerous. How foolish they were. Women could do most of the things men did. Who was left in charge when the me...”

“Proportion is the heart of beauty.”

“This was her destiny, and it was a fit and proper one. She was not unwilling, but she knew this was a fateful moment, and she had a sense of doors closing behind her and the path of her life being ...”

“She shook her head in perplexity. "I'll never know where you got the idea that you were destined for greatness." She dropped the rest of the rabbit in the pot and begun to clean the underside of it...”

“Jack was too absorbed in his work to hear the bell. He was mesmerized by the challenge of making soft, round shapes of hard rock. The stone had a will of its own, and if he tried to make it do some...”

“If we're all aggressive, obedient solders [sic], who's going to write the poems and play the blues and go on anti-war protest marches?”

“I think there are two kinds of marriage," Ethel said thoughtfully. "One is a comfortable partnership, where two people share the same hopes and fears, raise children as a team, and give each other ...”

“No one's an angel - especially if he's a man”

“Englishmen did not speak to strangers on trains ...”

“Ishmael was looking at him through narrowed eyes. This is very important to you, this box.Its important to the world.Ishmael said: The sun rises, and the sun sets. Sometimes it rains. We live, then...”

“A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor peoples washing.”

“I don't think it really matters whether parents are strict or lenient, as long as they're consistent. Kids can live with more or less any set of rules so long as they know what they are. It's arbit...”