Quotes by : Christopher Isherwood

What’s so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn’t any difference between people....

Write, live what happens; Life is too sacred for invention – though we may lie about it sometimes,....

It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible....

The Nazis may write like schoolboys, but they're capable of anything. That's just why they're so dangerous.....

These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening....

The more I think about myself, the more I'm persuaded that, as a person, I really don't exist. That is....

... he couldn't, as a respectable master in an English public school, have taken us to a brothel. Yet....

For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I've....

2NOTES“You broke your other appointment, didn’t you?”“I did not! I told you on the phone—these....

But George knows he can't do that. Because, absurdly, inadequately, in spite of himself, almost, he is....