Murder in the Cathedral Quotes

War among men defiles this world.

Unreal friendship may turn to real but real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended.

Only the fool, fixed in his folly, may think he can turn the wheel on which he turns.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

In life there is not time to grieve long.

I see nothing quite conclusive in the art of temporal government, but violence, duplicity and frequent malversation. King rules or barons rule: The strong man strongly and the weak man by caprice. They have but one law, to seize the power and keep it, and the steadfast can manipulate the greed and lust of others, the feeble is devoured by his own.

Human kind cannot bear very much reality.

Friendship should be more than biting Time can sever.

Destiny waits in the hand of God, shaping the still unshapen.

Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.

Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.