Joyce Cary Quotes

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  • Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.

    Marriage   Adultery   Sin  
    The Horse's Mouth ch. 8 (1944)
  • To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

    Joyce Cary (1958). “First trilogy: Herself surprised: To be a pilgrim. The horse's mouth”
  • The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer

    Car   Purpose   Objects  
    Joyce Cary, Alan Bishop (1976). “Selected essays”, Michael Joseph
  • It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.

  • The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

    Joyce Cary (1961). “Art and reality: ways of the creative process”
  • Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

    Joyce Cary (1958). “First trilogy: Herself surprised: To be a pilgrim. The horse's mouth”
  • I had from childhood not only the experience of love and truth common to all family life, but the idea of them embodied in the person of Jesus, a picture always present to our imagination as well as our feelings.

    Life   Jesus   Truth  
    Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.82, New Directions Publishing
  • The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.

  • A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.

    Joyce Cary (1961). “Art and reality: ways of the creative process”
  • I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.

    Love   Heart   Despair  
    Joyce Cary (1953). “Except the Lord: A Novel”, New York : Harper
  • 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.

    Lying   Block   Night  
    Joyce Cary (1957). “THE HORSE'S MOUTH”
  • Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

    Mother   Children   Poor  
    Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.39, New Directions Publishing
  • Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

    Joyce Cary (1985). “Triptych”, Penguin Classics
  • Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.

    Reality   House   Littles  
  • For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

    Joyce Cary (1961). “Art and reality: ways of the creative process”
  • A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

    Joyce Cary, Alan Bishop (1976). “Selected essays”, Michael Joseph
  • Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

    Grief   Funeral   Earth  
    Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.39, New Directions Publishing
  • The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.

  • No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.

    Bored   Doubt   Treasure  
    Joyce Cary (1958). “First trilogy: Herself surprised: To be a pilgrim. The horse's mouth”
  • Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

    Democracy   Poet   Dies  
    Joyce Cary, Alan Bishop (1976). “Selected essays”, Michael Joseph
  • No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.

    Money   Hands   Years  
    Joyce Cary (1991). “Mister Johnson”, New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

    Life   Giving   Inspire  
  • When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

    Joyce Cary (1957). “THE HORSE'S MOUTH”
  • Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

    Heart   Self   Play  
    Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.87, New Directions Publishing
  • All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

    Art   Painting   Modern  
    Joyce Cary (1985). “Triptych”, Penguin Classics
  • I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.

    Joyce Cary, Alan Bishop (1976). “Selected essays”, Michael Joseph
  • Something you have to make...It's all work, work.

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

    Joyce Cary (1957). “THE HORSE'S MOUTH”
  • The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.

    "The Horse's Mouth". Book by Joyce Cary, www.theguardian.com. 1944.
  • A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

    Art   Ideas   World  
    Joyce Cary, Alan Bishop (1976). “Selected essays”, Michael Joseph
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