The Bastard Quotes

“Reading’s the means by which the lowest man can lift himself from a state of ignorance.”
― John Jakes, The Bastard

“He and Marie wandered through a square”
― John Jakes, The Bastard

“God! he swore silently. That man was ever born to be torn and troubled by women!”
― John Jakes, The Bastard

“Fortune’s wind might be savage, he decided. But to be seized and swept along by it was much more exciting than to live forever becalmed.”
― John Jakes, The Bastard

“But that’s the purpose of education! To begin to understand! Then to want to understand!”
― John Jakes, The Bastard

“But that's the purpose of education! To begin to understand! Then to want to understand!”
― John Jakes, The Bastard

“Ware’s—in the Gazette, and I’ll continue to do”
― John Jakes, The Bastard

“The greatest crime a human being can commit is to allow himself to be humbled into poverty, into obscurity, into—” She let go of his arm, swept the room with a gesture at once damning and sad. “This. I committed that crime so that you will never”
― John Jakes, The Bastard

“Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn at no other.”
― John Jakes, The Bastard

“Defoe’s Moll Flanders, Fielding’s Tom Jones and Johnson’s moralizing fable, Rasselas.”
― John Jakes, The Bastard