Charles Portis Quotes
Collection of top 36 famous quotes about Charles Portis
Charles Portis Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Charles Portis quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.
— Charles Portis
watching him cut for sign.
— Charles Portis
Charles Portis shows his mastery of place and the more complicated subtleties of time.
— Donna Tartt
I am ready. I have repented my sins and soon I will be in heaven with Christ my savior. Now I must die like a man.
— Charles Portis
I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.
— Charles Portis
I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.
— Charles Portis
There is nothing free except the Grace of God.
— Charles Portis
I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.
— Charles Portis
You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.
— Charles Portis
Time just gets away from us.
— Charles Portis
Lucille Biggers Langford and Florence Mabry Whiteside. As the
— Charles Portis
Tom Chaney would pay for this! I would not rest easy until that Louisiana cur was roasting and screaming in hell!
— Charles Portis
wind came up through the floor hole in such a way that the Heath wrappers were suspended behind my head in a noisy brown vortex
— Charles Portis
You are a pearl of great price to me, but there are times when you are an almighty trial to those who love you.
— Charles Portis
Nothing I like to do pays well.
— Charles Portis
The wicked flee when none pursueth.
— Charles Portis
You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?""I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed. — Charles Portis
Lookin' back is a bad habit.
— Charles Portis
Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!
— Charles Portis
He drank even as he rode, which looked difficult. I cannot say it slowed him down any, but it did make him silly. Why do people wish to be silly?
— Charles Portis
My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.
— Charles Portis
I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful
— Charles Portis
Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.
— Charles Portis
That is the way of it. - Rooster Cogburn
— Charles Portis
Who all is in there? Speak up and be quick about it!' 'A Methodist and a son a bitch!
— Charles Portis
But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?
— Charles Portis
The People's' historic duty was to become a nameless herd and submit to the absolute control of a small pack of wily and vicious intellectuals.
— Charles Portis
There is no knowing what is in a man's heart.
— Charles Portis
You put things off and then one morning you wake up and say - today I will change the oil in my truck.
— Charles Portis
Now I was surprised and light-headed, like a domestic fowl that finds itself able to fly over a low fence in a moment of terror.
— Charles Portis
As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.
— Charles Portis
That's bold talk for a one-eyed fat man.
— Charles Portis