The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith Quotes

“Lower ways of life give way to higher.”
― Thomas Keneally, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

“She yawns for men and not with her mouth. She weeps for men and not with her eyes. She drinks men down, she is a cave for men.”
― Thomas Keneally, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

“The truest crime remaining to him to commit was the waste of love. It should be bequeathed, as land is.”
― Thomas Keneally, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

“Bejesus, ye're a fussy black.”
― Thomas Keneally, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

“And with love, ambitions!”
― Thomas Keneally, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

“She yawns for men and not with her mouth. She weeps for men and not with her eyes. She drinks men down, she is a cave for me.”
― Thomas Keneally, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

“In the mind of a true snob there are certain limited criteria to denote the value of human existence. Jimmie's criteria were: home, hearth, wife, land. Those who possessed these had beatitude unchallengable. Other men had accidental, random life. Nothing better.”
― Thomas Keneally, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

“Coitus is random, children are definite.”
― Thomas Keneally, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith