Best Mordecai Quotes

#1. If you are not willing to take the shame on yourself, you then let it remain on Jesus Christ. You must bear the reproach of your sinful state of indifference, or the cause of our Master must bear it.

Mordecai

#2. I didn't know about beauty, he had thought. Nobody ever told me.

Mordecai Richler

#3. If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

Mordecai Richler

#4. Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere,

Mordecai Richler

#5. But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit.

Mordecai Richler

#6. Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.

Mordecai Richler

#7. There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.

Mordecai Richler

#8. There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#9. All writing is about the same thing - it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration it creates

Mordecai Richler

#10. Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.

Mordecai Richler

#11. Shame on you. Don't tell me you've been married for an hour and you've already got eyes for another woman.

Mordecai Richler

#12. Obviously the raven with the unquenchable itch was at it again, playing tricks on the world and its creatures. Once by air, he thought, and now by water.

Mordecai Richler

#13. Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid.

Mordecai Richler

#14. Who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this.

Mordecai

#15. Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall is painfully perfect.

Mordecai Richler

#16. Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

Mordecai Richler

#17. Divided we live, united we die!

Mordecai Roshwald

#18. And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?

Mordecai Richler

#19. I'm rambling again. Wandering off the point. But this is the true story of my wasted life ...

Mordecai Richler

#20. I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.

Mordecai Richler

#21. The Negro people of America ... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#22. I have always been skeptical of medical orthodoxies, because sooner, rather than later, so many of them are turned on their heads. Or, put another way, providing you are prepared to wait it out, what was adjudged bad for you yesterday is likely to prove beneficial today.

Mordecai Richler

#23. I get the impression that Mordecai misinterpreted Esther's message. It sounded to him like she was trying to hide her nationality and avoid the responsibility of presenting herself to the king. Had he seen and heard her in person, he probably would have judged her differently.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#24. Mary had Joseph. Esther had Mordecai. Ruth had Boaz. We will not become the women God intends us to be without the guidance, counsel, wisdom, strength, and love of good men in our lives.

John Eldredge

#25. Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#26. Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was a bit of a copycat writer and very derivative and tried to write a novel using their voices, really ... I keep it out of print.

Mordecai Richler

#27. I am an only child, and I guess was spoiled by my parents.

Mordecai Brown

#28. Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.

Mordecai Richler

#29. Each man creates god in his own image.

Mordecai Richler

#30. This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.

Mordecai Richler