A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. Joyce Cary More Quotes by Joyce Cary More Quotes From Joyce Cary Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is. Joyce Cary funeralgriefearth Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it. Joyce Cary houselittlesreality The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright. Joyce Cary frighthellgovernment An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes. Joyce Cary shapesagememories No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year. Joyce Cary moneyhandsyears For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too. Joyce Cary essentialshard-workart What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination? Joyce Cary actorspowerfulimagination No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life. Joyce Cary treasureboreddoubt 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. Joyce Cary morningmenpeople I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love. Joyce Cary despairheartlove It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister. Joyce Cary ministerscabinetsdark What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint. Joyce Cary frustrationpaintartist A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment. Joyce Cary worldideasart Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother? Joyce Cary poormotherchildren People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts. Joyce Cary eyebirdpeople A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion. Joyce Cary destinygreatnesssymphony The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer Joyce Cary objectscarpurpose The principal fact of life is the free mind. Joyce Cary freedommindfacts God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing. Joyce Cary realblowcharacter Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body. Joyce Cary bodysouldoe
