John Christopher Quotes
- We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.
- His anger was as great as mine, but hot where mine was cold.
- Some people are oil and water.
- I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the…
- We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.
- I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.
- There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.
- It is because they are so strong that she hides her feelings.
- What men do matters more than what they know.
- You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat.
- And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.
- What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.
- The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other…
- As Pa said, censorship encouraged people to believe nonsense.
- There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy.
- Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.