Quotes by Joyce Cary

Joyce Cary

A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.

Children

Father

Mother

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

Crafts

Emotional

Writing

A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man

Conceited

Creativity

Men

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

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

Age

Memories

Shapes

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

Blow

Character

Real

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.

Despair

Heart

Love

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.

Jesus

Life

Truth

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

Democracy

Dies

Poet

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

Eden

Love

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Dies

Doe

Doubt

Eden

Emotional

Eye

Father

Forgiving

Generations

Genius

Heart

Ideas

Imagination

Injustice

Jesus

Joy

Karma

Knowing Who You Are

Labels

Life

Life Is Hard

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Marriage

Memories

Men

Mother

Objects

People

Play

Poet

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Quotes by Joyce Cary

Joyce Cary

A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.

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

A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man

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

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

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

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.

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

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

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