“What could he be thinking of? He seemed to be trying to remember something, perhaps an engagement, perhaps an excuse to leave… — Brian Moore Insecurity Copy Share Image
“I am, always have been, a fool who rushes in, a blurter-out of awkward truths, a speaker-up at parties who, the morning… — Brian Moore Blabbermouth Copy Share Image
“ There, in the dining-room, amid the wreck of dinner glasses, dishes, wine bottles, there settled on all three of us an instant… — Brian Moore Copy Share Image
As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight… — Brian Moore Alight Copy Share Image
“And the bell jangled, the driver started. The bus whirled off, to the last stop, the lonely room, the lonely night.” — Brian Moore Bus Copy Share Image
“O, she said, a woman in love can't afford to be proud. He must be made to see, he must be made… — Brian Moore Love Copy Share Image
“And maybe, although it was a thing you could hardly bear to think about, like death or your last judgment, maybe he… — Brian Moore Better things Copy Share Image
“For it was important to have things to tell which interested your friends. And Miss Hearne had always been able to find… — Brian Moore Friendship Copy Share Image
“He was a horrid-looking fellow. Fat as a pig he was, and his face was the colour of cottage cheese. His collar… — Brian Moore Bernard Copy Share Image
“In the carnival hall of mirrors which is our memory, we distort what we see. In Ernie's mirror image of me, I… — Brian Moore Love Copy Share Image
The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes. — Brian Moore Heroes Copy Share Image
“How did I get so bogged down in ordinariness that even this once I couldn't do the spontaneous thing, the thing I… — Brian Moore Ordinariness Copy Share Image
When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that… — Brian Moore Normal person Copy Share Image
“Love - why, I'll tell you what love is: it's you at 75 and her at 71, each of you listening for… — Brian Moore Love Copy Share Image
“We had not written or phoned or called or even sent a lousy card. We were young: we had our troubles. If… — Brian Moore Hell Copy Share Image
There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When… — Brian Moore Actor Copy Share Image
And now we have the formalities over, we'll have the National Anthems. — Brian Moore National Copy Share Image
“Love isn’t an act, it’s a whole life. It’s staying with [them] now because [they] need you; it’s knowing you... will still… — Brian Moore Life Copy Share Image
“She watched the glass, a plain woman, changing all to the delightful illusion of beauty. There was still time: for her ugliness… — Brian Moore Ageing Copy Share Image
“Don't you know that love isn't just going to bed? Love isn't an act, it's a whole life. It's staying with her… — Brian Moore Life Copy Share Image
“When a thing is told to you and you can't remember it happening it doesn't count somehow. It is as though it… — Brian Moore Memory Copy Share Image
