Joce > Joce's Quotes

“You're to come away at once, out of danger. I've got a motor-car and a basket of strawberries and a bottle of Château Peyraguey — which isn't a wine you've ever tasted, so don't pretend. It's heaven with strawberries.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“Can I know that mine was a foolish, innocent world, a world of delusion and feeling and ridiculous dreams - a world of music - and still love it?

Endlessly, effortlessly.”
― Peter Goldsworthy, Maestro

“To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.”
― W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

“The lovers of the innocent must protect them above all from the knowledge of their own cruelty.”
― Mary Renault, The Charioteer

“in flammam flammas, in mare fundis aquas”
― Ovid