The Desolate Garden Quotes

“There is no morality to be found in evil.
But to recognise that which is truly evil one must forget the rules of morality.”
― Daniel Kemp, The Desolate Garden

“Denounce private medical care, but where do they go for their health needs? Some dirty filthy NHS hospital where you have to be able to understand Swahili? I don't think so!”
― Daniel Kemp, The Desolate Garden

“They like to associate themselves with the ordinary man, until it comes to peerages or jobs in Europe, earning astronomical money for themselves and their own. They're in it for the power and prestige it gives them; nothing else. Give me a man who creates opportunity any day, rather than one who wants to regulate us all and leave himself exempt.”
― Daniel Kemp, The Desolate Garden

“I'll tell you one thing, Sir. They're all the same, these politicians, no matter what colour they wear. Incapable of telling the truth and never did a day's work in their lives most Liberals, and all the Labour ones. Read about the lives of real people in books, but never experienced it.”
― Daniel Kemp, The Desolate Garden

“I'd missed it in the papers. Don't have much time for them, comic books the majority of them.”
― Daniel Kemp, The Desolate Garden

“There is a part of the pub, near one of the log fires, that had been christened 'The Worrier's Corner.' It was normally occupied by elderly pairings, discussing the woes of humankind today compared to their time, and their standards. Nothing was ever overheard emanating from that corner that was not better done, tasted, used or made in their days compared to today. Perhaps they were right in their collective refusal to participate in the righteous grind of progression, which can often seem onerous and exacting in the increasing anarchic society the elderly find themselves in.”
― Daniel Kemp, The Desolate Garden

“She reminded me of a pink mannequin displayed in the windows of fashion shops, one of those minus zero size females who are advised to eat air for sustainability.”
― Daniel Kemp, The Desolate Garden

“I did have a singular fear of being arrested for the transportation of a live skeleton on British Rail, for which I'm sure, there must be some law against in the lost journals of the Empire.”
― Daniel Kemp, The Desolate Garden

“Look after your feet son, and they will carry you through life without complaint.” This was, perhaps, the only sensible advice he ever gave me.”
― Daniel Kemp, The Desolate Garden

“I smelled of whiskey and tobacco; not the catch of the night, I supposed.”
― Daniel Kemp, The Desolate Garden

“For a lie to add piquancy to a story the story would be factual. Fantasy needs no lie to stimulate or excite. But if the factual story is contrived or fallacious then it’s the fantasy that is the lie.”
― Daniel Kemp, The Desolate Garden