Quotes by : Patrick White

At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for strangers,....

His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.

They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't have....

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divine....

I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those....

But the purpose and nature are never clearly revealed. Human behaviour is a series of lunges, of which,....

Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst....

Mrs. Trotter made a sincere though wrong sound, while opening her handbag to look for help.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

Voss could always, if necessary, fail to understand. But wounds will wince, especially in the salt air.....