Author of quotes: Colleen McCullough

Politics is a game of chance, and those who give it their all will soon be disappointed. After all, this game is dirty and dishonest. Weave of lies, deceit, personal ambitions, deceived hopes. It is devoid of ethics and morality, and the most unprincipled win in it. A person who wants to work for the benefit of people is engaged in social problems, medicine, or something that has a visible positive return.

If God created people sinless, there would simply be no need for priests and policemen.

Difficulties spur action.

- Of course, you're very Mature in their seventeen years, but still don't get cocky.
- Just try to step into their parental territory, immediately you are accused of insolence - really?

You're beautiful, Greece, as I love Italy, you're still beautiful. And you ever - the cradle of all.

At least you have expanded my education on the part of the ladies ' toilet, both upper and lower, - humbly noticed Hartheim.
- Come on! I bet you have a dozen mistresses, and undress them all you.
- I only have one, and like a good mistress, she is waiting for me in a negligee.

Little monster, wounded, but not defeated.

And tomorrow morning I will be at mass. But the night's still young, and magic in the service is long gone. And now - only the night and Maggie. Welcome. And it is also Holy communion.

- So you had no doubt that I will come to you, Maggie?
- I told you. In Drogheda you're mine. If you come, be sure, I would come to you.

The earth made them shy, because the earth is not in need of eloquence, secular courtesy. The ground only need what they give - a silent love, undivided devotion.

Never before have I been so happy and so unhappy.

You were placed in my way, that I understood: the false and empty pride of pastors like me; like Lucifer, I will thirst to become like God and, like Lucifer, I fell.

She looked him in the eye in the blue saw all the love that warmed her from childhood, gave meaning to its existence, and love - immense, hopeless fatigue. That means: not tired body, exhausted soul.

- You love her! - with surprise said Ann.
- Always loved.
- What a misfortune for both of you.