C.S. Forester Quotes

The cork was in the bottle. He and the Atropos were trapped.

I'd rather be in trouble for having done something than for not having done anything.

modern standards. No one expected that

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

They were setting off on an adventure, and Hornblower was only too conscious that it was his own fault.

The stinks of the true believers have to be smelt to be believed.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.

Hornblower worked as hard to conceal his human weaknesses as some men worked to conceal ignoble birth.

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.

The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

His self-respect was at its lowest ebb.

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

Irresponsibility was something which, in the very nature of things, could not co-exist with independence.

I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

Happy is the bride the sun shines on.