Bottles Quote by Patrick White

“At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for strangers, to distinguish these occasions.”

— Patrick White

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

— Patrick White

“There are moments when the eyes flow into each other. Then the souls are wrapped around each other across a distance”

— Patrick White

“The worst thing about love between human beings is that when you are prepared to love them they don't want it; when they do…

— Patrick White

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

— Patrick White

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of…

— Patrick White

She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she…

— Patrick White

“Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers of easy-come-by…

— Patrick White

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

— Patrick White

My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

— Patrick White

Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into…

— Patrick White

“Where have you been, Theodora?," Mrs Goodman asked. "Walking, Mother." "And whom did you see?" Mrs Goodman flung her grammar like a stone. "I…

— Patrick White