Character Quote by Thomas Keneally

“In a fallen world, it was hard to do unambiguous good.”

— Thomas Keneally

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

— Thomas Keneally

“Vina e un vis, mila e singura realitate.”

— Thomas Keneally

And I was very interested in the priesthood.

— Thomas Keneally

“She yawns for men and not with her mouth. She weeps for men and not with her eyes. She drinks men down, she is…

— Thomas Keneally

“If Frau Rasch, in the last and fullest days of her husband’s power in Brno, had idly—during a party, say; a musical recital at…

— Thomas Keneally

Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.

— Thomas Keneally

So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a…

— Thomas Keneally

“He [Rabbi Menasha Levartov] was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God…

— Thomas Keneally

“Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most…

— Thomas Keneally

“We humbly beg your kind applause,” murmured Mary Brenham, with a creative frown that reminded Ralph of Betsey Alicia and made him sharply aware…

— Thomas Keneally

“In the mind of a true snob there are certain limited criteria to denote the value of human existence. Jimmie's criteria were: home, hearth,…

— Thomas Keneally