Louis De Bernieres Quotes
Top 53 wise famous quotes and sayings by Louis De Bernieres
Louis De Bernieres Famous Quotes & Sayings
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God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.
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.
Do you know the strangest thing about being a soldier? It is that you are repeatedly ordered to commit suicide. and you obey.
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.
Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it.
Christmas is such a trial,' said Mrs McCosh. 'I do most sincerely wish the Lord had been born at some other time.
Their trade was not life, but death. They have eaten the fruit of the tree they grew for others to eat.
Out the effects of the former. Do you think I don't understand economics? How many times do I have to
Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.
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.
When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.
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.
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
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.
Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.
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.
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?
Few sagging houses whose stones had lost their mortar and were held together only by gravity and habit,
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.
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.