All Lawrence Durrell Quotes
- Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine! Desirable
- Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist. Any
- Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand. Dating
- No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat. Autocrat
- Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we… Artist
- It is not peace we seek but meaning. Inspirational
- The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the… All
- Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie. Always Hurries
- It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. Breakdown
- The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with… Bistro
- Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. Air
- Our inventions mirror our secret wishes. Invention
- Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass. Ass
- Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase… Act
- Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off. Cutter
- But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket Another Like
- The memory of man is as old as misfortune Inspirational
- We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point. Jokey
- It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind. Fire
- It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness. Achieve