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To Play the King (Francis Urquhart #2) QUOTES

To Play the King (Francis Urquhart #2) QUOTES

1 " Morality, Sir, is the monologue of the unexcited and the unexcitable, the revenge of the unsuccessful, the punishment of those who tried and failed, or who never had the courage to try at all. "

― Michael Dobbs , To Play the King (Francis Urquhart #2)

2 " Loyalty is like the Doctrine of Celibacy—easy to proclaim but damned difficult to live by. "

― Michael Dobbs , To Play the King (Francis Urquhart #2)

3 " I’m an Englishman, after all, "

― Michael Dobbs , To Play the King (Francis Urquhart #2)

4 " silk handkerchief that erupted out of the breast pocket, an affectation he had adopted to distance himself from the Westminster hordes in their banal Christmas-stocking ties and Marks & Spencer suits. "

― Michael Dobbs , To Play the King (Francis Urquhart #2)