35 Quotes by Alice Thomas Ellis

Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life. When they couldn't make war men made money - and trouble and a dreadful nuisance of themselves.

All his beauty, wit and graceLie forever in one place,He who sang and sprang and moved Now, in death, is only loved.

They shared an image of the American Christmas--riches, reconciliations, tears, snow, success, sentiment, furs and firs, the shop windows shining like Heaven and everything good for sale.

. . to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.

How the vulgar loved portents, prodigies and the untoward. Only the religious knew how embarrassing they could be - and quite beside the point.

Well, I think adultery is a filthy habit,' said Rose, 'like using someone else's toothbrush.

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

I think the meaning of the universe is bound up with the egg. ... I am fed up with the meaning of the universe. Everything starts in the egg and ends in death. I think it's called 'the heartbreak at the heart of things.' But then perhaps our very mortality is an egg and at the moment of death our souls will emerge like damp chicks.