Philosophy Quote by Edward St. Aubyn

“Was he, after all, really a bad man doing a brilliant impersonation of an idiot? It was hard to tell. The connections between stupidity…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal.”

— Edward St. Aubyn

“But then neither revenge nor forgiveness change what happened. They’re sideshows, of which forgiveness is the less attractive because it represents a collaboration with…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“Old enough to remember the arrival of 'Have a nice day', Patrick could only look with alarm on the hyperinflation of 'Have a great…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.”

— Edward St. Aubyn

“The Queen was saying only the other day that London property prices are so high that she doesn’t know how she’d cope without Buckingham…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“Nobody ever died of a feeling, he would say to himself, not believing a word of it, as he sweated his way through the…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“An editor sleeping with his writer was not as bad as a psychoanalyst sleeping with his patient, or even a professor sleeping with an…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“..."the waiting-room atmosphere in which death was the delayed train...”

— Edward St. Aubyn

“An image flashed across her mind of two rams flinging their heads against each other on a rocky mountainside. What did the girl rams…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“But that, after all, was the point of romantic folly. If it hadn’t all gone horribly wrong, it wouldn’t have been the real thing.”

— Edward St. Aubyn