Quotes by : Joyce Cary

Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud....

B-but, Mr Jimson, I w-want to be an artist.''Of course you do,' I said, 'everybody does once. But they....

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

Nothing is a masterpiece - a real masterpiece - till it's about two hundred years old. A picture is like....

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world....

Girl going past clinging to a young man's arm. Putting up her face like a duck to the moon. Drinking....

Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant:....

I will admit that I wanted to shout for standing on the top of a scaffold in front of a good new wall....

Why,' I said, quite surprised by my own eloquence in inventing all this stuff, 'it happens every day.....

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart....