107 Quotes by Bryce Courtenay

He was notorious for cutting short extraneous verbiage from over-loquacious barristers”.

Racism does not diminish with brains, it’s a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn’t necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

People say I don’t write books, I make Christmas presents.

While being beaten by the other kids encouraged me to learn a new language, it wasn’t doing my confidence a lot of good.

It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don’t go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.

Luck is a curious companion, it comes to those who believe they hold it, and is an elusive servant to those who doubt they possess it.

You can’t go feeding your hate on the past, it’s not natural.

I had never seen a prison, nor had I even imagined one, but there is a racial memory in man that instinctively knows of these things. The architecture of misery has an unmistakable look and feel about it.

Life has a habit of going on.