Louis De Bernieres Quotes

God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.

How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world

The only thing more pitiful than a middle-aged punk is a white Rastafarian. I did meet one of those once, and he was lonelier than I was.

That's how a woman wins a mans heart, by making him think that he amuses her.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away.

Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.

Do you know the strangest thing about being a soldier? It is that you are repeatedly ordered to commit suicide. and you obey.

Love delayed is lust augmented.

The pleasure of homecoming is more than recompense for the pains of setting out, and therefore it is always worth departing.

We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.

[She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it.

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

That is morality,I make myself imagine that it is personal.

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

Christmas is such a trial,' said Mrs McCosh. 'I do most sincerely wish the Lord had been born at some other time.

The dead can read tears.

One is only young once, but in her case it was once to often.

No man is a man until he has been a soldier.

Monogamy was an invention of men who wished to reduce the power of women over them.

You can't be pretty forever, you know that? But you can always be beautiful.

Lord Jesus, Son of God,' he prayed. 'If you're not going to do anything, I will.

No one is more truly themselves than when they are sick or injured. That's when the qualities come out. And

He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.

History is the propaganda of the victors.

He felt his throat constrict. and was overcome with an emotion that he could not name. because it was a mixture of so many.

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it's better not to tell the truth.

Few sagging houses whose stones had lost their mortar and were held together only by gravity and habit,

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.

For the bird that cannot soar, God has provided low branches.

Me? I'm not lazy, I'm just passionate about leisure.

Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

Every man needs an obsessio in order to enjoy life, and it was so much the better if that obsession was constructive.

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

Out the effects of the former. Do you think I don't understand economics? How many times do I have to

Dr Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse.

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you've got is the dough.

Their trade was not life, but death. They have eaten the fruit of the tree they grew for others to eat.

Money has no religion except itself.

Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.

When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.

What keeps me going is my children.

Eventually, in an historic feat of compromise, democracy was restored by the abolition of elections..

She was beginning to understand that it is not enough to love someone deeply; you also have to learn to love them well.

entailment of the family estates, but envisaged for himself

The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it

He knew too much to be an optimist, and not enough to relieve his pessimism.

Dionisio arose reluctantly from his bed, went to the window to see what kind of day it was, and went to the telephone to call the police.

Symmetry is for God, not for us.

Each of them was better together than either of them could have been apart.