Christopher Isherwood Quotes
Top 68 wise famous quotes and sayings by Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood Famous Quotes & Sayings
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You're a nice boy," she chuckled harshly. "You must come round here one evening. I'll teach you something you didn't know before.
It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life.
Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.
To say time is evil because evil happens in time is like saying the ocean is a fish because fish happen in the ocean.
Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.
How delightful it is to be here.(Gym) If only one could spend one's entire life in this state of easygoing physical democracy.
The pain of hunger beneath everything. At the end of all love-making, the dreamless sleep after the orgasm, which is like death.
This is a tightly planned little house. He often feels protected by its smallness; there is hardly room enough here to feel lonely.
The other day I made an epigram. I said, Anni's beauty is only sin-deep. I hope that's original? Is it? Please laugh.
The Nazis were not right to hate the Jews. But their hating of Jews was not without a cause. No one ever hates without a cause.
She acted as a kind of rough and ready chemical reagent; in certain combinations she produced certain known results.
By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress.
She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.
Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and ... most people's books are just variations on certain themes.
George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength.
John Gielgud told us this story about Mae West. She was asked, 'Do you ever smoke after you've had sex?' She answered, 'I never looked.
Beneath outer consciousness, two other beings, anonymous, impersonal, without labels, had met and recognized each other and clasped hands.
I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.
Experience isn't any use. And yet, in quite another way, it might be. If only we weren't all such miserable fools and prudes and cowards.
In order to get the worst possible first impression of Los Angeles one should arrive there by bus, preferably in summer and on a Saturday night.
I was very pink and young and English; and quite prepared for a Continent complete with poisonous drains, roast frogs, bedbugs and vice.