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Perhaps Quotes by Julian Barnes
- Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.
- Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary.
- When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the…
- He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn't…
- You would think, wouldn’t you, that if you were the child of a happy marriage, then you ought to have a better than average marriage…
- Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder.…
- And perhaps it was also the case that, for all a lifetime's internal struggling, you were finally no more than what others saw you as.…
More Perhaps Quotes
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
- I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul,… — Ansel Adams
- Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. — Honore de Balzac
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
- I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps… — Roger Bannister
- Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in… — Jacques Barzun