Joyce Cary
Joyce Cary
Arthur Joyce Lunel Carywas an Irish novelist...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 December 1888
CountryIreland
democracy poet dies
Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.
government hell fright
The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.
greatness destiny symphony
A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.
eye people bird
People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.
children teaching punishment
The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.
soul doe body
Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.
artist frustration paint
What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.
tragedy world injustice
A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.
dark cabinets ministers
It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.
powerful imagination actors
What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?
marriage adultery sin
Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.
life giving inspire
I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
life jesus ideas
I had from childhood not only the experience of love and truth common to all family life, but the idea of them embodied in the person of Jesus, a picture always present to our imagination as well as our feelings.
less man
It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.