Joyce Cary

Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot…

— Joyce Cary

I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it…

— Joyce Cary

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

— Joyce Cary

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress

— Joyce Cary

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the…

— Joyce Cary

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

— Joyce Cary

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination…

— Joyce Cary

No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial…

— Joyce Cary

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

— Joyce Cary

An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.

— Joyce Cary

A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that…

— Joyce Cary

“You take a straight tip from the stable, Cokey, if you must hate, hate the government or the people or the sea…

— Joyce Cary

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in…

— Joyce Cary

Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.

— Joyce Cary

I had from childhood not only the experience of love and truth common to all family life, but the idea of them…

— Joyce Cary

No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the…

— Joyce Cary

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the…

— Joyce Cary

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

— Joyce Cary

I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back, I have no right to complain.

— Joyce Cary

Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish…

— Joyce Cary

The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he…

— Joyce Cary

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

— Joyce Cary

Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

— Joyce Cary

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.

— Joyce Cary

People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a…

— Joyce Cary