Brigid Brophy Quotes

#1. Was it Brigid Brophy who gave up on a certain Virginia Woolf novel when she discovered that Woolf believed one needed a corkscrew to open a bottle of champagne?

David Markson

#2. - She's a great girl.
- I know. A little too great for me.

Haruki Murakami

#3. We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.

Brigid Brophy

#4. The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?

Brigid Brophy

#5. A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.

Brigid Brophy

#6. Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind.

Eric Hoffer

#7. Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

Brigid Brophy

#8. I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Brigid Brophy

#9. To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.

Brigid Brophy

#10. I have seen what a handful of girls can do. They can hold back an army if necessary, so please don't tell me it isn't possible.

Libba Bray

#11. I have the strangest thoughts in my head, maybe I should not write them down.

Erlend Loe

#12. Be insane. Be in love. Live in love.

Debasish Mridha

#13. O I'm so afraid that it's true about to travel hopefully being better than to arrive. It might be all in the quest, all in the search, all in the anticipation. When it came, there might be nothing there.

Brigid Brophy

#14. Sentimentalist is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse than to be cruel, which it isn't.

Brigid Brophy

#15. Luckily, I have two of the coolest parents around. They're so open about having any and all experiences, so they never hindered us in any way by categorizing or judging anything.

John Krasinski

#16. If there be no enemy, no fight; if do fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown.

Girolamo Savonarola

#17. The fact that there are bigger injustices and wrongs doesn't make it right to sacrifice an innocent monkey. It doesn't alter the case at all.

Brigid Brophy

#18. Breath is the king of mind.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#19. I told some imprecisely imagined interlocutor that each year I hoped to have outgrown being moved by the autumn and each year I hadn't

Brigid Brophy

#20. The bull-fighter has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies.

Brigid Brophy

#21. By the age of three ... I was already an addicted reader. I still crave daily immersion in experience other than my own; (it needn't be more pleasant, exciting or illuminating
merely other) and I still fall into books as though into catalepsy.

Brigid Brophy

#22. Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

Erin McKean

#23. Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional.

Joseph Sobran

#24. This yearning for new and distant scenes, this craving for freedom, release, forgetfulness
they were he admitted to himself, an impulse towards flight, flight from the spot which was the daily theatre of a rigid, cold, and passionate service.

Thomas Mann

#25. What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.

Ken Livingstone

#26. Emma says her illness was a kind of self-hypnosis which obliterated the outside world, a way of escaping life and reducing its proportions to what she could manage.

Carol Lee

#27. To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.

Brigid Brophy