"Of women, the most we can say, not……" — Lawrence Durrell

Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that… - Lawrence Durrell

"Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals."

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93 Quotes by Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence Durrell has 93 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or…
It is not peace we seek but meaning.
The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the…
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible…
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they…
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know… — David Attenborough
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how… — David Attenborough
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I… — David Attenborough
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in… — David Attenborough
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware… — David Attenborough

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