Accidents Quote by Louis de Bernieres

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

— Louis de Bernieres

“The dead can read tears.”

— Louis de Bernières

...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be…

— Louis de Bernieres

Love delayed is lust augmented.

— Louis de Bernieres

No man is a man until he has been a soldier.

— Louis de Bernieres

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

— Louis de Bernieres

God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.

— Louis de Bernieres

Your lips are like sugar And your cheeks an apple Your breasts are paradise And your body a lily. O, to kiss the sugar…

— Louis de Bernieres

When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you…

— Louis de Bernieres

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

— Louis de Bernieres

We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.

— Louis de Bernieres

“Pelagia put her hands on her hips, taking advantage of the superiority implicit in the fact that she was standing and he lying down.”

— Louis de Bernières