Morris West Quotes
1916–1999 Australia
Morris Langlo West (26 April 1916 – 9 October 1999) was an Australian novelist and playwright.
- Australia
- Novelists
- Playwrights
Also known as: West, Morris
Random Morris West quote
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To make that long, last donkey-ride between the pikeman and the stake, to hear the shouting and the chant of hypocrites, to be a spectacle for animals in human masks!
The Heretic (1968)
I'm a Nolan. I could dazzle you in dialect, because the words do not make the same sense to different men.
The Heretic (1968)
Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
The Heretic (1968)
No man — prince, peasant, pope, — has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness.
The Heretic (1968)
In politics there is no morality anyway. The nature of the game precludes it. A politician's career depends upon the fickle wind of public opinion. He is forced to trim his conscience to catch every shift of the breeze.
The Ringmaster (1991)
I once asked a distinguished biologist to explain to me the genetic imprint, the famous double helix which differentiates one being from another. He called it "the graffito of God", because it can never be erased. All other imprints — of memory, environment, experience — he called "human graffiti".
Lazarus (1990)
Rossini was gentle with her. "In one way or another,we all have to cope with the essential solitude of being human, whether we're celibate or married."
"If you're a good person, doesn't God fill your loneliness?"
"He fills it, I think, with a divine discontent."
Eminence (1998)