--- title: "Best Patricia Highsmith Quotes" description: "Patricia Highsmith was an American writer who created the Tom Ripley thrillers and wrote 22 novels and many short stories." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-patricia-highsmith-73519.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-patricia-highsmith-73519.jpg) # Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995) Writer United States **115** quotes in **478** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Patricia Highsmith was a writer from the United States, best known for *The Price of Salt*. ## Quick Facts About Patricia Highsmith Born January 19, 1921 Died February 4, 1995 Nationality United States Profession Writer Notable works The Price of Salt Known for Ripley Under Ground, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Cry of the Owl, The Boy Who Followed Ripley, Ripley Under Water ## About Patricia Highsmith She is best known for her psychological thrillers, especially a five‑book series about the charming but criminal Tom Ripley. Her writing career lasted almost fifty years, and more than two dozen of her books have been turned into movies. Highsmith’s work shows the influence of existentialist literature and often explores questions of identity and popular morality. Graham Greene once called her "the poet of apprehension". ## Awards & Honors Grand Prix de Littérature Policière Prix de l'Humour noir Officer of Arts and Letters Lucien Barrière Literary Award ## Quotes by Patricia Highsmith · Page 2 > [Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/every-man-is-his-own-law-court-and-punishes-himself-enough/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Court](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/court/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85b/patricia-highsmith-3982_court_every-man-is-his-own-law-court-and-punis_1416650.jpg) > [“A rush of panic comforted him with its familiarity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/a-rush-of-panic-comforted-him-with-its-familiarity/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Anxiety](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anxiety/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8eb/patricia-highsmith-3982_anxiety_a-rush-of-panic-comforted-him-with-its-f_2906114.jpg) > [How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/how-easy-it-was-to-lie-when-one-had-to-lie/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f5/patricia-highsmith-3982_easy_how-easy-it-was-to-lie-when-one-had-to-l_951310.jpg) > [I have no television - I hate it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/i-have-no-television-i-hate-it/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Hate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hate/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1f/patricia-highsmith-3982_hate_i-have-no-television-i-hate-it-1269974_1269974.jpg) > [“Writing is a craft and needs constant practice.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/writing-is-a-craft-and-needs-constant-practice/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Practice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/practice/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c2/patricia-highsmith-3982_practice_writing-is-a-craft-and-needs-constant-pr_447398.jpg) > [Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/honesty-for-me-is-usually-the-worst-policy-imaginable/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Honesty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/honesty/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f40/patricia-highsmith-3982_honesty_honesty-for-me-is-usually-the-worst-poli_1487315.jpg) > [One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/one-situation-maybe-one-alone-could-drive-me-to-murder-family-life/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Community](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/community/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f42/patricia-highsmith-3982_community_one-situation-maybe-one-alone-could-driv_81835.jpg) > [I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/i-think-people-often-try-to-find-through-sex-things-that-are-much/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fd/patricia-highsmith-3982_easier_i-think-people-often-try-to-find-through_1591846.jpg) > [“What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/what-chance-combination-of-shadow-and-sound-and-his-own-thoughts-had/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Chance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chance/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e1/patricia-highsmith-3982_chance_what-chance-combination-of-shadow-and-so_295044.jpg) > [Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/some-fellow-from-the-third-world-kept-hammering-for-prizes-for-a/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Cinema](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cinema/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80e/patricia-highsmith-3982_cinema_some-fellow-from-the-third-world-kept-ha_988831.jpg) > [“I know what they'd like, they'd like a blank they could fill in. A person already filled in disturbs them terribly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/i-know-what-they-d-like-they-d-like-a-blank-they-could-fill-in-a/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea3/patricia-highsmith-3982_quote_i-know-what-they-d-like-they-d-like-a-bl_993833.jpg) > [ one blow in anger \[would\] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/one-blow-in-anger-would-kill-probably-a-child-from-aged-two-to-eight/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Anger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3a/patricia-highsmith-3982_anger_one-blow-in-anger-would-kill-probably-a_2254720.jpg) > [“Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/dusk-was-falling-quickly-it-was-just-after-7-p-m-and-the-month-was/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Dusk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dusk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b16/patricia-highsmith-3982_dusk_dusk-was-falling-quickly-it-was-just-aft_268071.jpg) > [Sometimes you just want to not be bothered by people. Sometimes, if not at all times, you just want people to leave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/sometimes-you-just-want-to-not-be-bothered-by-people-sometimes-if-not/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1f/patricia-highsmith-3982_time_sometimes-you-just-want-to-not-be-bother_1420457.jpg) > [When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/when-i-am-thickening-my-plots-i-like-to-think-what-if-what-if-thus-my/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ad/patricia-highsmith-3982_ifs_when-i-am-thickening-my-plots-i-like-to_1748229.jpg) > [That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/that-wasn-t-a-bad-price-for-a-first-book-my-agent-upped-it-as-much-as/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7dd/patricia-highsmith-3982_agents_that-wasn-t-a-bad-price-for-a-first-book_2695816.jpg) > [“Our actions and responsibilities are our own; what later returns to either haunt or applaud us is neither possible to predict nor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/our-actions-and-responsibilities-are-our-own-what-later-returns-to/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/762/patricia-highsmith-3982_later_our-actions-and-responsibilities-are-our_3153874.jpg) > [I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/i-don-t-want-to-know-movie-directors-i-don-t-want-to-be-close-to-them/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Cinema](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cinema/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7bd/patricia-highsmith-3982_cinema_i-don-t-want-to-know-movie-directors-i-d_1436586.jpg) > [“He could feel the belligerence growing in Freddie Miles as surely as if his huge body were generating a heat that he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/he-could-feel-the-belligerence-growing-in-freddie-miles-as-surely-as/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Anger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/127/patricia-highsmith-3982_anger_he-could-feel-the-belligerence-growing-i_532865.jpg) > [I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/i-don-t-think-ripley-is-gay-he-appreciates-good-looks-in-other-men/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02d/patricia-highsmith-3982_appreciates_i-don-t-think-ripley-is-gay-he-appreciat_762397.jpg) > [“It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/it-would-be-carol-in-a-thousand-cities-a-thousand-houses-in-foreign/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a0/patricia-highsmith-3982_heaven-hell_it-would-be-carol-in-a-thousand-cities-a_2725963.jpg) > [“He felt he was about to experience again some ancient, delicious childhood moment that the steam calliope's sour hollowness, the stitching hurdy-gurdy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/he-felt-he-was-about-to-experience-again-some-ancient-delicious/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b2/patricia-highsmith-3982_children_he-felt-he-was-about-to-experience-again_136744.jpg) > [“That's exactly where you're wrong! Any kind of person can murder. Purely circumstances and not a thing to do with temperament! People…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/that-s-exactly-where-you-re-wrong-any-kind-of-person-can-murder/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f7/patricia-highsmith-3982_book-to-movie-adapta_that-s-exactly-where-you-re-wrong-any-ki_371345.jpg) > [“Nothing could be without its opposite that was bound up with it. Could space exist in a building without objects that stopped…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/nothing-could-be-without-its-opposite-that-was-bound-up-with-it-could/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Coexistence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/coexistence/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee4/patricia-highsmith-3982_coexistence_nothing-could-be-without-its-opposite-th_2297362.jpg) > [“For the hundredth time, he examined his face in the bathroom mirror, patiently touched every scratch with the styptic pencil, and repowdered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/for-the-hundredth-time-he-examined-his-face-in-the-bathroom-mirror/) [patricia highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Duality](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/duality/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46e/patricia-highsmith-3982_duality_for-the-hundredth-time-he-examined-his-f_1119556.jpg) > [“There was something demoniacal and insuperable about typographical errors, as if they were part of the natural evil that permeated man's existence,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/there-was-something-demoniacal-and-insuperable-about-typographical/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ff/patricia-highsmith-3982_life_there-was-something-demoniacal-and-insup_514531.jpg) > [January. It was all things. And it was one thing, like a solid door. Its cold sealed the city in a gray…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/january-it-was-all-things-and-it-was-one-thing-like-a-solid-door-its/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Action](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/action/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3f/patricia-highsmith-3982_action_january-it-was-all-things-and-it-was-one_1423693.jpg) > [“I had depressing thoughts that the theme, even though I had thought of it, was better than I was as a writer.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/i-had-depressing-thoughts-that-the-theme-even-though-i-had-thought-of/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c07/patricia-highsmith-3982_books_i-had-depressing-thoughts-that-the-theme_2649130.jpg) > [But there was not a moment when she did not see Carol in her mind, and all she saw, she seemed to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/but-there-was-not-a-moment-when-she-did-not-see-carol-in-her-mind-and/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cde/patricia-highsmith-3982_bed_but-there-was-not-a-moment-when-she-did_1474865.jpg) > [“Once the back of their hands brushed on the table, and Therese's skin there felt seperately alive and rather burning. There could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/once-the-back-of-their-hands-brushed-on-the-table-and-therese-s-skin/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d71/patricia-highsmith-3982_quote_once-the-back-of-their-hands-brushed-on_643270.jpg) > [“Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/happiness-was-like-a-green-vine-spreading-through-her-stretching-fine-2/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Gardening](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gardening/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c17/patricia-highsmith-3982_gardening_happiness-was-like-a-green-vine-spreadin_806671.jpg) > [“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/i-feel-i-stand-in-a-desert-with-my-hands-outstretched-and-you-are/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81e/patricia-highsmith-3982_raining_i-feel-i-stand-in-a-desert-with-my-hands_54461.jpg) > [Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/robert-walker-as-bruno-was-excellent-he-had-elegance-and-humor-and/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Beauty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beauty/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a2/patricia-highsmith-3982_beauty_robert-walker-as-bruno-was-excellent-he_2508476.jpg) > [Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/life-is-a-long-failure-of-understanding-a-long-mistaken-shutting-of/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Failure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/failure/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/564/patricia-highsmith-3982_failure_life-is-a-long-failure-of-understanding_1439670.jpg) > [And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/and-no-book-and-possibly-no-painting-when-it-is-finished-is-ever/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e22/patricia-highsmith-3982_art_and-no-book-and-possibly-no-painting-whe_1236783.jpg) > [I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/i-like-to-work-for-four-or-five-hours-a-day-i-aim-for-seven-days-a/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/788/patricia-highsmith-3982_aim_i-like-to-work-for-four-or-five-hours-a_3182939.jpg) > [“Tom envied him with a heartbreaking surge of envy and self-pity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/tom-envied-him-with-a-heartbreaking-surge-of-envy-and-self-pity/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Envy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/envy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8c/patricia-highsmith-3982_grief_tom-envied-him-with-a-heartbreaking-surg_1766415.jpg) > [The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/the-conversation-seemed-just-as-boring-and-forgettable-as-details-of/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [American history](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american-history/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4b/patricia-highsmith-3982_american-history_the-conversation-seemed-just-as-boring-a_3130106.jpg) > [Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/ripley-is-married-and-he-s-not-lost-he-has-his-feet-on-the-ground/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7dd/patricia-highsmith-3982_feet_ripley-is-married-and-he-s-not-lost-he-h_2776261.jpg) > [I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/i-prefer-to-live-in-the-country-where-it-s-quiet-woody-allen-movies/) [Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/) [Country](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/country/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c74/patricia-highsmith-3982_country_i-prefer-to-live-in-the-country-where-it_2268996.jpg) ## Patricia Highsmith by topic [Time (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/time/patricia-highsmith/) [People (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/patricia-highsmith/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/#itemlist", "name": "Patricia Highsmith Quotes", "numberOfItems": 40, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.", "creator": { 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