Joyce Cary Men Quotations

Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.

The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man