The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm. Joyce Cary More Quotes by Joyce Cary More Quotes From Joyce Cary Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it. Joyce Cary house littles reality The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright. Joyce Cary fright hell government An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes. Joyce Cary shapes age memories 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 money hands years For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too. Joyce Cary essentials hard-work art What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination? Joyce Cary actors powerful imagination 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 treasure bored doubt 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 morning men people 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 despair heart love It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister. Joyce Cary ministers cabinets dark What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint. Joyce Cary frustration paint artist A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment. Joyce Cary world ideas art Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother? Joyce Cary poor mother children 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 eye bird people 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 destiny greatness symphony 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 objects car purpose The principal fact of life is the free mind. Joyce Cary freedom mind facts 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 real blow character Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body. Joyce Cary body soul doe 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. Joyce Cary punishment teaching children
