891 Quotes by William Faulkner

Civilization begins with distillation.

An old man is never at home save in his own garments: his own old thinking and beliefs; old hands and feet, elbow, knee, shoulder which he knows will fit.

I’m bad and I’m going to hell, and I don’t care. I’d rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

It is jealousy, I think, which makes us wish to prevent young people doing the things we had not the courage or the opportunity ourselves to accomplish once, and have not the power to do now.

Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.

He’s crossed all the oceans all around the world.

Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest.

You’re not being tried by common sense,” Horace said. “You’re being tried by a jury.

Man the sum of his climatic experiences.