41 Quotes by Jane Gardam

I was quite enchanted with myself. I had always thought I had very strong views on sexual morality. I found I had nothing of the kind.

Laywers, I suppose, were children once.

I was seeing something I didn’t understand and did not want to. No I wasn’t. I was seeing something I had always understood and wanted to understand better.

Present us with a silver cup for something when you're a filthy rich lawyer, I dare say? Yes. You'll be a lawyer. Magnificent memory. Sense of logic, no imagination and no brains.

Christianity is supposed to be all about love but it’s utterly useless when you’re in love.

For years of our lives the days pass waywardly, featureless, without meaning, without particular happiness or unhappiness. Then, like turning over a tapestry when you have only known the back of it, there is spread the pattern.

All my life I have felt events to be the result of my own sins.

If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.

He has not the faintest idea that I am ugly and we are very happy together.