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

- C.J. Sansom

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 t…

- C.J. Sansom

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

- C.J. Sansom

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 th…

- C.J. Sansom

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 y…

- 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

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

- C.J. Sansom

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

- C.J. Sansom

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

- C.J. Sansom