Africa Quotes by Elspeth Huxley

“What sorts of sin?" Any sort. When other people commit them, you are startled, but when you commit them yourself, they seem absolutely natural.”

— Elspeth Huxley

The great point about money was to convert it as quickly as possible into something you could use or enjoy.

— Elspeth Huxley

“Tilly was downcast; as with all perfectionists, it was the detail others might not notice that destroyed for her the pleasure of achievement.”

— Elspeth Huxley

English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.

— Elspeth Huxley

“...that's the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true…

— Elspeth Huxley

Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds.

— Elspeth Huxley

You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and…

— Elspeth Huxley

The pioneer kills what he loves.

— Elspeth Huxley

Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds

— Elspeth Huxley

The Beatties were always arguing, it gave them an interest in life.

— Elspeth Huxley

Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them.

— Elspeth Huxley

“this was a moment of magic revealing to us all, for a few moments, a hidden world of grace and wonder beyond the one…

— Elspeth Huxley

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is…

— Elspeth Huxley

They [zebras] looked like highly varnished animated toys.

— Elspeth Huxley

One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'

— Elspeth Huxley