Quotes by Louis de Bernieres

Louis de Bernieres

…but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that’s what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you’re a genius.

Ideas

Ignorance

Stupid

[She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak.

Eye

Men

Mouths

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

Couple

Impossible

Law

Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.

Beautiful

Hurt

World

Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you’ve got is the dough.

Ham

Mushrooms

Olives

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

Childhood

Expected

Insanity

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I’ve been lobbying MPs, and I’m not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

Giving Up

Law

Mps

Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal.

Beautiful

Reality

Sublime

God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.

God

Heart

Religious

He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.

Insomnia

Night

Thinking

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Ambition

Anarchy

Apples

Art

Beautiful

Being Appreciated

Being In Love

Bird

Care

Causes

Childhood

Children

Civilization

Contentment

Couple

Delayed

Easter

Expected

Eye

Father

Fear

Feels

Flower

Focus

Garden

Giving Up

God

Ham

Has Beens

Heart

History

Hurt

Ideas

Ignorance

Impossible

Insanity

Insomnia

Joy

Killing Each Other

Kind

Kindness

Kissing

Law

Likes

Lilies

Literature History

Littles

Long

Love

Love Is

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Quotes by Louis de Bernieres

Louis de Bernieres

…but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that’s what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you’re a genius.

[She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak.

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.

Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you’ve got is the dough.

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I’ve been lobbying MPs, and I’m not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal.

God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.

He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.

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