The Definitive James Hilton Collection Quotes

“But now I’m beginning to care again—a little—and it hurts—it’s really more convenient not to have any hopes and fears.”
― James Hilton, The Definitive James Hilton Collection

“Are you interested, by the way, in etchings? I have one or two here that are considered to be rather choice.”
― James Hilton, The Definitive James Hilton Collection

“It did not require a great deal of imagination to picture a world in which power had passed into the hands of Al Capones with their private bombing squadrons.”
― James Hilton, The Definitive James Hilton Collection

“He was not much of a nature-worshipper, but he perceived that nature here was certainly at her best and liveliest. He gave her, as it were, full marks and a nod of approval, feeling that she would do very nicely as a background to his satisfying emotions”
― James Hilton, The Definitive James Hilton Collection

“she really did possess a love for humanity, and the further removed humanity was, both in space and time, the more she loved it.”
― James Hilton, The Definitive James Hilton Collection

“Aunt Viney (short for ’Lavinia’), viewed in the grey daylight that came in through the dining-room window, was always a rather imposing spectacle. She was fifty-one years of age, and had large staring eyes, quick bustling movements, more than a tendency to stoutness, a menacing optimism that was not quite matched by a sense of humour, and the most decided opinions upon everything. She was an excellent ‘manager’, and for more than a decade had lived at the Manse with her sister and brother-in-law and their children (there had been boys at one time), looking after them all with undoubted if rather relentless competence.”
― James Hilton, The Definitive James Hilton Collection