When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense. Joyce Cary More Quotes by Joyce Cary More Quotes From Joyce Cary To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. Joyce Cary forgiveness forgiving genius A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man Joyce Cary creativity conceited men I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain. Joyce Cary giving inspire life The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die. Joyce Cary life-is-hard brave joy The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm. Joyce Cary education teacher inspirational The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real. Joyce Cary knowing-who-you-are labels real A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. Joyce Cary crafts emotional writing Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another. Joyce Cary unbearable injustice generations All art is bad, but modern art is the worst. Joyce Cary modern painting art To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat. Joyce Cary forgiving genius heart Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims. Joyce Cary wise sea men No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest. Joyce Cary problem people world Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress Joyce Cary artist law mean Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins. Joyce Cary karma strong thinking I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience. Joyce Cary emotional writing book A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers. Joyce Cary mother father children Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends. Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations. Joyce Cary block night lying Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too. Joyce Cary valentines-day eden love 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. Joyce Cary political men knowledge 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 funeral grief earth
