Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by C.J. Sansom

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Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Christopher John Sansom is a British writer of historical crime novels, best known for his Matthew Shardlake series. He was born in 1952 in Edinburgh and attended George Watson's College in that city, but left the school with no qualifications. Sansom has written about the bullying he suffered there. Subsequently he was educated at the University of Birmingham, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. After working in a variety of jobs, he decided to retrain as a solicitor. He practised in Sussex as a lawyer for the disadvantaged, before leaving the legal profession to become a full-time writer. He lives in Sussex.

British - Writer | Born: 1952

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In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.

C.J. Sansom

But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.

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Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're not good, the good people will throw you to the wolves. So you might as well just be bad

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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.

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If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

C.J. Sansom

The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.

C.J. Sansom

Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

C.J. Sansom

We of alien looks or words must stick together.

C.J. Sansom

Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.

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It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.

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Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime: the threat of imprisonment, torture and death; the threat to one's family, the terror of being alone in a hostile world.

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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