Francine Mathews > Quotes

“Pamela slipped her arm around Churchill’s shoulders. “Try not to mind, darling. Americans don’t mean to be beastly and offensive. They simply can’t help it. They’re like rude children playing at soldiers—they’ve no notion how deadly serious it all is.”
― Francine Mathews, Too Bad to Die

“Life was a suitcase. “That’ll”
― Francine Mathews, Jack 1939

“there are only a few times in life when you get to test everything you’ve got—when”
― Francine Mathews, Jack 1939

“To Churchill, drinking is good manners, not a disease.” “Dad”
― Francine Mathews, Jack 1939

“...we are never strong enough for what we fear will hurt us. We combat it, finally, out of our deepest weakness.”
― Francine Mathews, Death in a Mood Indigo

“That must have been a ballroom once,” she said, as she glanced back at the conference–cum–dining room. For an instant she could imagine it: Women dressed like Anna Karenina. Hussars and diplomats. Candlelight softening the lines on their faces. “And this used to be a garden,” Michael added. “Like Stalin’s world used to be Russia. It’s only going to get drabber.”
― Francine Mathews, Too Bad to Die

“There are a number of ways to die, Willi. One of them is a spiritual kind of murder. The body lives on, but the soul’s gone out of it.”
― Francine Mathews, Jack 1939

“Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori,” he said solemnly. It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.”
― Francine Mathews, Jack 1939

“It seems we will be offered a choice between dishonor and war. I suspect we shall take dishonor—and get war afterward, as a kind of dessert.” Roosevelt”
― Francine Mathews, Jack 1939

“Set a thief to catch a thief,”
― Francine Mathews, Jack 1939

“He was increasingly doubtful of the existence of any God; but he hoped it was a vengeful one.”
― Francine Mathews, Jack 1939