Sins of the Fathers Quotes

“The very rich are no different; they just have more money. The real difference in this world is not between the rich and the poor but between those who create and those incapable of creation.”
― Susan Howatch, Sins of the Fathers

“Of all the great empires the world has known, ours will be the shortest. Two hundred years of chasing the Godalmighty Dollar, and what do we produce? The A-Bomb and I Love Lucy.”
― Susan Howatch, Sins of the Fathers

“Fact number two: all women basically want to be wives and mothers—’ ‘No, honey, they don’t. Sorry, but they just don’t. My fifty per cent of the human race isn’t a bunch of identical plastic dolls. We’re human beings and we’re all different and – incredible though this may seem to you – we don’t all want the same thing”
― Susan Howatch, Sins of the Fathers

“We always glamorize what we don’t have”
― Susan Howatch, Sins of the Fathers

“until society changed, men’s attitudes to women wouldn’t change”
― Susan Howatch, Sins of the Fathers

“You’re all cut off and sewn up”
― Susan Howatch, Sins of the Fathers

“Hypocrisy saves one’s sanity. It’s the shield you hide behind when the truth is too terrible to face”
― Susan Howatch, Sins of the Fathers

“If one really stopped to think about the insane way the universe is arranged one would go mad in no time, so now and then it’s good to laugh, it’s therapeutic, it dilutes the pain”
― Susan Howatch, Sins of the Fathers

“We have the three As instead: allies, aides and acquaintances. Or in other words: those we barter with, those we buy and those we acknowledge because it suits us to do so”
― Susan Howatch, Sins of the Fathers

“I’ve now reached the point where I don’t hate anyone. Hatred makes things worse. Hatred stops one coming to terms with all the horror and grief. And one must come to terms with it. Somehow.”
― Susan Howatch, Sins of the Fathers

“How could parents endure to labour for years, to sacrifice themselves so that their children should have nothing but the best, and to discover in the end that it had all been for so little, for a quick visit on national holidays and a few hours spent in front of the television set in a silence neither side knew how to break?”
― Susan Howatch, Sins of the Fathers

“I’d rather be a first-rate failure than a second-rate success.”
― Susan Howatch, Sins of the Fathers

“Morality’s like mink,” I said. “It’s great if you can afford it.”
― Susan Howatch, Sins of the Fathers