72 Quotes by Joyce Cary

Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends.Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations.

It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.

They can't give you all that, Mr Jimson,' said Walter, who was upset. 'It wouldn't be right. What would they give you seven years for?''Being Gulley Jimson,' I said, 'and getting away with it.

The Professor looked like a Protestant saint when the cannibal offered him the choice of taking six wives or being boiled alive. He wanted to mortify some flesh, but he didn't know which.

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too....

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.