Joyce Cary

A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.

— Joyce Cary

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to…

— Joyce Cary

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the…

— Joyce Cary

“Girl going past clinging to a young man's arm. Putting up her face like a duck to the moon. Drinking joy. Green…

— Joyce Cary

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows,…

— Joyce Cary

“Nothing is a masterpiece - a real masterpiece - till it's about two hundred years old. A picture is like a tree…

— Joyce Cary

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

— Joyce Cary

It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for…

— Joyce Cary

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

— Joyce Cary

Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like…

— Joyce Cary

The principal fact of life is the free mind.

— Joyce Cary

A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made…

— Joyce Cary

It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.

— Joyce Cary

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

— Joyce Cary

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.

— Joyce Cary

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

— Joyce Cary

“They can't give you all that, Mr Jimson,' said Walter, who was upset. 'It wouldn't be right. What would they give you…

— Joyce Cary

“The Professor looked like a Protestant saint when the cannibal offered him the choice of taking six wives or being boiled alive.…

— Joyce Cary

What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

— Joyce Cary

The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far…

— Joyce Cary

Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand…

— Joyce Cary

Something you have to make...It's all work, work.

— Joyce Cary

No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

— Joyce Cary

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

— Joyce Cary

The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.

— Joyce Cary