48 Quotes by John Christopher

Fritz was melancholic by nature, and could tolerate his own gloom. I do not think this is so with you, who are sanguine and impatient. In your case, remorse and despondency could be crippling.

And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.

His anger was as great as mine, but hot where mine was cold.

People may be persuaded that the machine is doing good. In fact, good is only capable of being done on a small scale. Evil is more versatile. You can hate those you have never seen, all the vast multitudes of them, but you can only love those you know — and that with difficulty.

What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.

Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

Truth does not surround itself with lies.

A man faced death, but when death drew back forgot it until the next time.

I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.