The Potato Factory Quotes

“The rapacious white tribe who were arriving in increasing numbers, not only as convicts but also as settlers, wanted to own everything they touched. They slashed and burned the wilderness so that they might graze their sheep and grow their corn. They erected fences around the land they now called their own and which henceforth they were prepared to defend with muskets and sometimes even their lives. They built church steeples and prison walls and homes of granite hewn from the virgin rock and timber cut from the umbrageous mountain forests. They possessed everything upon the island, the wild beasts that grazed upon its surface, the birds that flew over it, the fish that swam in its rushing river torrents and the barking seals resting in the quiet bays and secluded inlets. Everything they thought worthwhile was attached to the notion of ownership.”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Potato Factory

“Luck is a curious companion, it comes to those who believe they hold it, and is an elusive servant to those who doubt they possess it.”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Potato Factory

“The rich become rich by taking, and the poor by giving.”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Potato Factory

“my only desire is to teach the word o' man and leave the word o' Gawd to the pulpit men”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Potato Factory

“is intended to break the spirit, to render harmless those who are thought to be harmful.”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Potato Factory

“without courage, there is no luck and no hope. He who dares, wins.”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Potato Factory

“Turning to Ann Gower, she smiled. “You’re a good woman, Ann Gower.”
Ann Gower drew back and looked askance at Mary. “Don’t you go ruinin’ me reputation, Mary Abacus. I be a real bad woman, but a bloody good whore, and you knows it!”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Potato Factory