All Louis de Bernieres Quotes
- Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. Earthquake
- People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States. Critics
- The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry. Disorder
- It's stupid to claim that one human being is special, or picked out by God, when in fact there are hundreds of millions of human… All
- It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment… Abhor
- In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become… Bad
- An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible… Adversarial
- Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality. Anti
- Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children.… Admit
- So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of… Children
- The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier. Broke
- What keeps me going is my children. Children
- When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life. Children
- Women only nag when they feel unappreciated. Feel
- Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with… Aesthetic
- We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other. Care
- I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans… Act
- Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you’ve… All
- [She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its… Body
- Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in loveâ€, which… Accident