Joyce Cary Quotes

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

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man

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

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

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

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

A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

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

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.

A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.

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.

What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.

The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.

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

An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

The principal fact of life is the free mind.

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress

What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.

Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.

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.

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

People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.

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

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

Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.

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.

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.

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

Something you have to make...It's all work, work.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

For good and evil man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

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.