438 Quotes by John Fowles

I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.

Visitors to Lyme in the nineteenth century, if they did not quite have to undergo the ordeal facing travellers to the ancient Greek colonies -Charles did not actually have to deliver a Periclean oration plus comprehensive world news summary from the steps of the Town Hall- were certainly expected to allow themselves to be examined and spoken to.

It was curious how quiet that last evening was; as if I had already left, and we were just two ghosts talking to each other.

Kuulamine nõuab kahte poolt. Ühte, kes annab, ja teist, kes võtab, mida antakse.

This is true of all collecting. It extinguishes the moral instinct. The object finally possesses the possessor.

The world began in hazard and will end in it.

An answer is always a form of death.

Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life.

I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.