A Good Man Is Hard To Find Quotes

“Lady,' The Misfit said, looking beyond her far into the wood, 'there never was a body that give the undertaker a tip.”
― Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard To Find

“The girl had taken the Ph.D. in philosophy and this left Mrs. Hopewell at a complete loss. You could say "My daughter is a nurse," or "My daughter is a school teacher," or even, "My daughter is a chemical engineer." You could not say, "My daughter is a philosopher." That was something that had ended with the Greeks and Romans. All day Joy sat on her neck in a deep chair, reading. Sometimes she went for walks but she didn't like dogs or cats or birds or flowers or nature or nice young men. She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard To Find

“Across the river there was a low red and gold grove of sassafras with hills of dark blue trees behind it and an occasional pine jutting over the skyline. Behind, in the distance, the city rose like a cluster of warts on the side of the mountain. The birds revolved downward and dropped lightly in the top of the highest pine and sat hunch-shouldered as if they were supporting the sky.”
― Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard To Find

“There were two round photographs of an old man and woman with collapsed mouths and another picture of a man whose eyebrows dashed out of two bushes of hair and clashed in a heap on the bridge of his nose; the rest of his face stuck out like a bare cliff to fall from.”
― Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard To Find

“I call myself The Misfit," he said, "because I can't make what all I done wrong fit what all I gone through in punishment.”
― Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard To Find

“My daddy said I was a different breed of dog from my brothers and sisters. 'You know,' Daddy said, 'it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!”
― Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard To Find

“I call myself The Misfit," he said, "because I can't make what all I done wrong fit what all I gone through in punishment.
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard To Find”
― Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard To Find

“I just know you're a good man," she said desperately. "You're not a bit common!”
― Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard To Find

“She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”
― Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard To Find

“Lady," The Misfit said, looking beyond her far into the woods, "there never was a body that give the undertaker a tip.”
― Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard To Find

“[...] occhi azzurri come il collo di un pavone.”
― Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard To Find