Patrick White famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.
-- Patrick White

#Honesty #Littles #Irony
To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.
-- Patrick White

#Stars #Appearance #Spoil
She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.
-- Patrick White

#Sleep #Men #Rocks
I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.
-- Patrick White

#Jealous #Past #Bed
If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.
-- Patrick White

#Imagination #Truth Is
She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.
-- Patrick White

#Literature #Stories #Kind
If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect
-- Patrick White

#Mind #Sometimes #Lost
Life is full of alternatives but no choice.
-- Patrick White

#Choices #Alternatives #Life Is

I'm not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander
I have little shame, no dignity â€“ all in the name of a better cause.
Don't. Please, just let me hold you a little bit longer," he mumbled into my hair
Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
You love her," Teddy observed quietly. Henry replied with an uncharacteristic lack of irony: "Yes." Teddy's eyes shifted to the plaster interlacing that decorated the ceiling in curlicues. "Lord, you never make it easy, do you." "No.
Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

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