5 Quotes by Eric Linklater

...but the air's flat and stale and the people half-hearted. There's nothing to do there. You can make love without trouble or meaning, or get mildly drunk, or extract second-hand emotions from the cinema, or put your mind to sleep on a dance-floor, or play bridge, or throw yourself in front of a train on the Underground. There are forty ways of escaping from consciousness. But I want something more exciting than that.

But I find it difficult to recognize people. Human beings are so much alike.

It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears.

All I’ve got against golf is it takes you so far from the clubhouse.

For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.