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Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1) QUOTES

Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1) QUOTES

1 " All his life he would cherish the memory of an endless caravan of camels alongside the railway line, the laden beasts plodding patiently through the snow, ignoring the twentieth century as it hurtled past them in a clash of iron and a shriek of steam. "

― Ken Follett , Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)

2 " In the grounds of the château was a church
said to date from the year 1000, and he went to look at it, but he had never really understood what people saw in old
churches. "

― Ken Follett , Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)

3 " In the grounds of the château was a church said to date from the year 1000, and he went to look at it, but he had never really understood what people saw in old churches. "

― Ken Follett , Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)

4 " Little things please little minds. "

― Ken Follett , Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)

5 " The ability to listen to smart people who disagree with you is a rare talent "

― Ken Follett , Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)

6 " You never get cheered for telling people the situation is not as simple as they think. "

― Ken Follett , Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)

7 " I could fall for you in a heartbeat "

― Ken Follett , Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)

8 " There’s a saying: ‘If you owe a hundred dollars, the bank has you in its power; but if you owe a million dollars, you have the bank in your power. "

― Ken Follett , Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)

9 " I think more people should shoot newspaper editors...it might improve the press "

― Ken Follett , Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)

10 " Moderates always seem to deal in hopes rather than in facts. "

― Ken Follett , Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)

11 " In every country, those who were against war had been overruled. The Austrians had attacked Serbia when they might have held back; the Russians had mobilized instead of negotiating; the Germans had refused to attend an international conference to settle the issue; the French had been offered the chance to remain neutral and had spurned it; and now the British were about to join in when they might easily have remained on the sidelines. "

― Ken Follett , Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)

12 " His talent was to express his readers’ most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That was why they bought the paper. "

― Ken Follett , Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)

13 " A waiter appeared, and Gus said: “Bring coffee for my guests, please, and a plate of ham sandwiches.” He deliberately did not ask them what they wanted. He had seen Woodrow Wilson act like this with people he wanted to intimidate. "

― Ken Follett , Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)

14 " If it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. "

― Ken Follett , Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)

15 " Marvelous, isn’t it, how these Germans can shoot back at us even when they’re fucking dead. "

― Ken Follett , Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)

16 " Mam kissed Ethel and said: “I'm glad to see you settled at last, anyway,” That word ANYWAY carried a lot of baggage, Ethel thought. It meant: “Congratulations, even though you're a fallen woman, and you've got an illegitmate child whose father no one knows, and you're marrying a Jew, and living in London, which is the same as Sodom and Gomorrah.” But Ethel accepted Mam's qualified blessing and vowed never to say such things to her own child. "

― Ken Follett , Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)

17 " —Que Dios nos libre de los hombres con un destino dictado por la voluntad divina "

― Ken Follett , Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)

18 " But her angry feminism had set as hard as concrete during years of living alongside the tough, hardworking, dirt-poor women of London’s East End. Men often told a fairy tale in which there was a division of labor in families, the man going out to earn money, the woman looking after home and children. Reality was different. Most of the women Ethel knew worked twelve hours a day and looked after home and children as well. Underfed, overworked, living in hovels, and dressed in rags, they could still sing songs and laugh and love their children. In Ethel’s view one of those women had more right to vote than any ten men. "

― Ken Follett , Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)

19 " A German attack on Russia’s ally France would, in reality, be defensive—but the English talked as if Germany was trying to dominate Europe. "

― Ken Follett , Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)

20 " Men were the only animals that slaughtered their own kind by the million, and turned the landscape into a waste of shell craters and barbed wire. Perhaps the human race would wipe itself out completely, and leave the world to the birds and trees, Walter thought apocalyptically. Perhaps that would be for the best. "

― Ken Follett , Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)