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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
Their trade was not life, but death. They have eaten the fruit of the tree they grew for others to eat.
— 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
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
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
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
Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.
— 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
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
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
Monogamy was an invention of men who wished to reduce the power of women over them.
— Louis De Bernieres
No man is a man until he has been a soldier.
— 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
One is only young once, but in her case it was once to often.
— Louis De Bernieres