Bernieres Quotes

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

How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world — Louis De Bernieres

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. — Louis De Bernieres

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

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away. — Louis De Bernieres

Women only nag when they feel unappreciated. — Louis De Bernieres

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

Love delayed is lust augmented. — Louis De Bernieres

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

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

[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. — Louis De Bernieres

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry. — Louis De Bernieres

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

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

That is morality,I make myself imagine that it is personal. — Louis De Bernieres

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

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

The dead can read tears. — Louis De Bernieres

One is only young once, but in her case it was once to often. — Louis De Bernieres

No man is a man until he has been a soldier. — Louis De Bernieres

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

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

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

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

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

History is the propaganda of the victors. — Louis De Bernieres

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

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

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

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

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

For the bird that cannot soar, God has provided low branches. — Louis De Bernieres

Me? I'm not lazy, I'm just passionate about leisure. — Louis De Bernieres

Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow. — Louis De Bernieres

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

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

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

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

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. — Louis De Bernieres

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. — Louis De Bernieres

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

Money has no religion except itself. — Louis De Bernieres

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

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

What keeps me going is my children. — Louis De Bernieres

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

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

entailment of the family estates, but envisaged for himself — Louis De Bernieres

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 — Louis De Bernieres

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

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. — Louis De Bernieres

Symmetry is for God, not for us. — Louis De Bernieres

Each of them was better together than either of them could have been apart. — Louis De Bernieres