Best Louis de Bernieres Quotes
- Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow. Bird
- In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing… Acquaintance
- Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms. You blush in each other's presence, you both hover in places where… Become Quite
- ...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant… Any
- Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it… Beautiful
- Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us. Causes
- No man is a man until he has been a soldier. Been
- How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world Change
- The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail… Blind
- He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia. Begins
- Money has no religion except itself. Except
- When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have… Decision
- Love is temporary madness; it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work… Accident