Desmonde Quotes

“Fitzgerald is like the curate’s egg, good, very good, in parts, but the rest of it …”
― A.J. Cronin, The Minstrel Boy

“Now I no longer felt like little David, but like one of the bottles he had half washed out.”
― A.J. Cronin, The Minstrel Boy

“This was the same unreal, unworldly, inexplicably presanctified feeling, magnified, of course, but in essence identical.”
― A.J. Cronin, The Minstrel Boy

“I couldn’t believe anyone could go on clowning like that, practically on the eve of giving himself to Our Lord.”
― A.J. Cronin, The Minstrel Boy

“His one little indulgence in a life of stark austerity had killed him.”
― A.J. Cronin, The Minstrel Boy

“To live like this, spartan lives, nobly and cheerfully, is truly saintly.”
― A.J. Cronin, The Minstrel Boy

“I have a perfectly horrible name. I was called Alexander as a vain propitiation, quite useless, to my grandfather.”
― A.J. Cronin, The Minstrel Boy

“It’s rather early, but would it bore you if we first-named each other?”
― A.J. Cronin, The Minstrel Boy

“Half an hour ago I was itching to knock his block off.”
― A.J. Cronin, The Minstrel Boy

“The first long cool draught was mellowing.”
― A.J. Cronin, The Minstrel Boy