The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel. — Christopher Isherwood Fatherhood Copy Share Image
“I always look upon the capacity to save money as little short of miraculous.” — Christopher Isherwood Miraculous Copy Share Image
“...she acted as a kind of rough and ready chemical reagent; in certain combinations she produced certain known results.” — Christopher Isherwood Heart Copy Share Image
Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Like a long train which stops at every dingy little station, the winter dragged slowly past.” — Christopher Isherwood Fitness Copy Share Image
“...I have had an unpleasant feeling, such as one has in a dream, that I myself do not exist.” — Christopher Isherwood Dream Copy Share Image
“Write, live what happens; Life is too sacred for invention – though we may lie about it sometimes, to heighten it.” — Christopher Isherwood Innovation Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid, ha, ha, I find more inspiration in the Marquis de Sade.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the real clue to your sex-orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than in your sexual feelings.… — Christopher Isherwood Fall in love Copy Share Image
Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Remorse is not for the elderly. When it comes to them it is not purging or uplifting, but merely degrading and wretched,… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Waking up begins with am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and… — Christopher Isherwood Awoken Copy Share Image
“Mont Blanc confronted us, dazzling, immense, cut sharp out of the bue sky; more prosterous than the most baroque wedding cake, more… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“It was as crude as his drafts always were. But it accomplished the enormous feat of making this shapeless blob of potential… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“I've always made it a rule to have a suit for every day of the week. Perhaps you'll tell me I'm vain,… — Christopher Isherwood Clothes Copy Share Image
In the eternal lazy morning of the Pacific, days slip away into months, months into years; the seasons are reduced to the… — Christopher Isherwood Eternal Copy Share Image
“By the time it has gotten dressed, it has become he; has become already more or less George — though still not… — Christopher Isherwood Depression Copy Share Image
Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the boy, the… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“No, Geo—underneath all that, Nan really loves me. It’s just she wants me to see things her way. You know, she’s two… — Christopher Isherwood Children Copy Share Image
“Do you think it makes people nasty to be loved? You know it doesn’t! Then why should it make them nice to… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best… — Christopher Isherwood Absurd Copy Share Image
“And now an hour, maybe, has passed. And they are both drunk: Kenny fairly, George very. But George is drunk in a… — Christopher Isherwood Communication Copy Share Image
“As a final test, I tried to look Arthur in the eyes. But no, this time-honoured process didn't work. Here were no… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Christ, it is sad, sad to see on quite a few of these faces - young ones particularly - a glum, defeated… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Now, for example, people with freckles aren’t thought of as a minority by the nonfreckled. They aren’t a minority in the sense… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Fear, after all, is our real enemy. Fear is taking over our world. Fear is being used as a tool of manipulation… — Christopher Isherwood Bad breath Copy Share Image
“I must say that I have always felt that, in the deepest sense, we are all brothers. Class distinctions have never meant… — Christopher Isherwood Children Copy Share Image
“ Because the persecuting majority is vile, says the liberal, therefore the persecuted minority must be stainlessly pure...What's to prevent the bad… — Christopher Isherwood Hate Copy Share Image
I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed. — Christopher Isherwood Camera Copy Share Image
George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself. — Christopher Isherwood People Copy Share Image
I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in. — Christopher Isherwood Inspirational Copy Share Image
She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Here, in their midst, George feels a sort of vertigo. Oh God, what will become of them all? What chance have they?… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“How delightful it is to be here.(Gym) If only one could spend one's entire life in this state of easygoing physical democracy.” — Christopher Isherwood Entire life Copy Share Image
