Joyce Cary
Joyce Cary
Arthur Joyce Lunel Carywas an Irish novelist...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 December 1888
CountryIreland
morning men people
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.
knowledge men tragedy
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.
wise men sea
Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.
creativity men conceited
A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man
attached car engine free simply
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.
apples grow imagination love trees
Love doesn't grow on the trees like apples in Eden. It's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination to make it too, just like anything else.
guide organized politics religion satisfy
Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.
change continuous creation creative free good man produces queer therefore
For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
less man
It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.
mother children lying
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.
dark cabinets ministers
It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.
love
Something you have to make...It's all work, work.
marriage adultery sin
Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.
life jesus ideas
I had from childhood not only the experience of love and truth common to all family life, but the idea of them embodied in the person of Jesus, a picture always present to our imagination as well as our feelings.