Nature Quote by Barry Unsworth

“A little bit of kindness goes a long way with women.”

— Barry Unsworth

“I glimpsed the man's face with the shine of death on it. They laid him down there in the open. They had brought him…

— Barry Unsworth

“Numbers of men are getting richer and greater numbers are getting poorer. Alas, both classes have higher expectations these days. In Short, sir, there…

— Barry Unsworth

“Grief works its own perversions and betrayals; the shape of what we have lost is as subject to corruption as the mortal body...”

— Barry Unsworth

“It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to…

— Barry Unsworth

“Wickedness is too common in the world for us to think much of why and wherefore. It is more natural to ask about the…

— Barry Unsworth

“And this was history now: heroic protest, concerted rebellion, execution of the tyrant, a new social order. It ran like a clear stream--useless to…

— Barry Unsworth

Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto…

— Barry Unsworth

“Those confiding their pain cannot know at the outset how much they will be required to relive it.”

— Barry Unsworth

“The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.”

— Barry Unsworth

“When you in de right you heart strong you no 'fraid nottin'.”

— Barry Unsworth

I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are…

— Barry Unsworth