438 Quotes by John Fowles

You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

Ask me to marry you." "Will you marry me?" "No.

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer. His fairy story.

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.