Alice Thomas Ellis Quotes

#1. Well, I think adultery is a filthy habit,' said Rose, 'like using someone else's toothbrush.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#2. This perhaps is what is meant by hiraeth: a lifelong yearning for what is gona and out of reach.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#3. Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#4. There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#5. I don't understand
how everything moves so quickly.
They say time flies when you're having fun,
but I wasn't always having fun.
Even when I was mad or sad,
time was always on the run.

Amanda Leigh

#6. Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#7. Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#8. Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#9. Evil and laughter cannot co-exist.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#10. Everything looked the same every morning: all in order and just the same. It was in the nights that the difference held sway and there was no comfort for lost and lonely things.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#11. The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community.

Jeff Koons

#12. Do so with gusto, because my God, there's nothing sorrier than a gusto-less existence.

David Arnold

#13. To cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#14. When men don't have God, they need substitutes. To my way of thinking, whiskey is a poor substitute - but many men depend upon it. But what I am angry about is that they didn't obey my orders.

Janette Oke

#15. There is no relationship. Women, like men, women, children, babies hamsters.
This is the Google Translate of the quote in Persian, above.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#16. As many opinions as there are men; each a law to himself.

Terence

#17. One can get very fond of the people one meets in bars. The trouble is they then appear sort of different in the daylight and you realize that taking them with you is rather like taking a goldfish for a walk: not entirely correct, and surprising for the next people you run into.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#18. I have frequently thought that the dead should be buried with all their belongings. It seems weirdly perverse that their clothes should still be here when the people you love best in the world have gone.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#19. I'm also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I'm surprised I haven't gone through with a homeware brand. The bedding, the comforters, the candles, the this and that. I would like to design everything.

Lisa Vanderpump

#20. Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#21. Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#22. There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#23. They shared an image of the American Christmas
riches, reconciliations, tears, snow, success, sentiment, furs and firs, the shop windows shining like Heaven and everything good for sale.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#24. Things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#25. There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#26. When I went to the cinema as a boy, when I saw a war film, I thought the general was the star, and that Cary Grant was an extra. I had no idea about the structure of film, but I loved going to the cinema.

Nicolas Roeg

#27. We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#28. Two things will paralyze our creativity faster than anything else: 1. We haven't defined success. 2. We haven't defined failure.

Todd Henry

#29. Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#30. It doesn't matter what you look like really though, it is who you are that matters of course.

Josh Peck

#31. When a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#32. A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman.

Mary Roach

#33. I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I have one mind and am out of it, but because I have lots of them, all beavering away on their own.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#34. Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

Alice Thomas Ellis