Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years. — David Mitchell Peace Copy Share Image
Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime — David Mitchell Apocalypse Copy Share Image
“Perhaps those deprived of beauty perceive it most instinctively.” — David Mitchell Beauty Copy Share Image
“The Icon'ry, Aunt Bees said, held Valleysmen's past an' present all t'gether” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“We were, to quote the proverb, ‘The one dog who barks at nothing answered by a thousand dogs barking at something …’ ” During” — David Mitchell Animal Copy Share Image
The learnin' mind is the livin' mind, Meronym said, an any sort o'Smart is truesome Smart, old Smart or new high Smart… — David Mitchell Learning Copy Share Image
I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps. — David Mitchell Abyss Copy Share Image
Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice. — David Mitchell Human beings Copy Share Image
“A dinery server behaving like a pureblood attracts trouble; trouble attracts blame; blame demands a scrapegoat.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself. — David Mitchell Physics Copy Share Image
“ Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true. ” — David Mitchell Life Copy Share Image
“Temple of the Rat King. Ark of the Soot God. Sphincter of Hades. Yes, King's Cross Station, where, according to Knuckle Sandwich… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Mrs.Comb tightened her headscarf and wondered why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I put ten sugar cubes in my coffee. I drank it through my tongue, and my blood sang like the Archangel Gabriel… — David Mitchell Coffee Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over,… — David Mitchell Dance Copy Share Image
“ Yay, Old Uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds, an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger… — David Mitchell Heart Copy Share Image
Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent… — David Mitchell Flaunting Copy Share Image
As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it… — David Mitchell Approach Copy Share Image
“We—by whom I mean anyone over sixty—commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk… — David Mitchell Drive Copy Share Image
“The Research Excellence Framework is starting to ask what sorts of curiosity our culture can afford, and that scares me even more… — David Mitchell Curiosity Copy Share Image
“Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall… — David Mitchell Faith Copy Share Image
“But, overall, I concluded the young-hack-versus-corporate-corruption thriller had potential. (The Ghost of Sir Felix Finch whines, "But it's been done a hundred… — David Mitchell Art Copy Share Image
I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in… — David Mitchell Age Copy Share Image
“But love’s not just the drug; it’s also the dealer. Love wants love in return, am I right, Olly? Like drugs, the… — David Mitchell Calm mind Copy Share Image
“He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must… — David Mitchell Family Copy Share Image
“Answering the question 'How would you like to smell?' by saying 'I'd rather I didn't' is also no longer acceptable. It's not… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“La risata è anarchia e blasfema. I tiranni fanno bene a temerla.” — David Mitchell Amor Copy Share Image
“What is it that ties shapes of land to the human heart, Mo?” — David Mitchell Human heart Copy Share Image
“What's wrong, de Zoet? You look like your breeches are beshatten.” — David Mitchell Breeches Copy Share Image
