All Christopher Isherwood Quotes
- A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat… Constitutes
- It seems to me that the real clue to your sexual orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than your sexual feelings. If you are… Able
- We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers. Belongs
- Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying. Always Aware
- The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel. Cruel
- I often feel that worse than the most fiendish Nazis were those Germans who went along with the persecution of the Jews not because they… Along
- The Nazis were not right to hate the Jews. But their hating of Jews was not without a cause. No one ever hates without a… Cause
- I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't know… Book
- I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent. Anybody
- What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by… Any
- Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent. Called
- California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the land rush, the… Aircraft
- The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination. Advertisement
- By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress. All
- Sometimes awful things have their own beauty. Awful
- I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on… End
- Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor. Bad
- California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land. California
- I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Camera
- Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. Bad