Top 82 Forester Quotes
#1. There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.
C.S. Forester
#2. A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not 'What can I do for you?' but 'What can I do you for?
H.M. Forester
#3. Harm began to come to Hornblower from that day forth, despite his obedience to orders and diligent study of his duties, and it stemmed from the arrival in the midshipmen's berth of John Simpson as senior warrant officer.
C.S. Forester
#4. Knowledge was the great thing
not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their appearance of nobility, of transcendent virtue, but detailed, passionate, trivial human knowledge.
Graham Greene
#6. Anyone who has a garden, park or orchard tree has an opportunity to ensure that it offers protection, brings beauty and bears fruit for future generations. In short, every one of us should aspire to be a forester.
Gabriel Hemery
#7. Red pill or blue pill? If only it were that simple. You've been watching the wrong movies.
H.M. Forester
#9. Ain't nothing in this life comes easy to any of us, child. Every road you walk down's got a price. Sooner you learn that the better. Don't matter the direction you go, there'll be some bad mixed in with the good and you just gotta learn to take the one with the other.
Victoria Forester
#10. The Forester patted a log next to her. 'Come and sit, child. Tell me about your journey, and start a little before the beginning, because we are usually wrong about where things begin.
T. Kingfisher
#11. Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
C.S. Forester
#12. I have been governor every now and then, but I am a forester all the time.
Gifford Pinchot
#13. Raw talent only gets you so far in this old world and the rest is a whole lot of practice, persistence, and perspiration.
Victoria Forester
#14. They were setting off on an adventure, and Hornblower was only too conscious that it was his own fault.
C.S. Forester
#15. The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.
C.S. Forester
#16. "I...love you...Rylan. But do not fear...I'll be seeing you...again...I am...forever watching..."
She breathes her last. The fire races across her face and through her hair.
I watch as she lifted up with the rising smoke.
Colleen Boyd
#17. A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
C.S. Forester
#18. Remember how mean you where when we first met? Piper laughed and Conrad smiled and tentativly relaxed. Boy did you ever have everyone fooled because you're about the nicest person I ever met. Conrad blushed.
Victoria Forester
#19. Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
C.S. Forester
#20. The cork was in the bottle. He and the Atropos were trapped.
C.S. Forester
#21. It was not a conspiratorial wink, nor did Hornblower attempt the hopeless task of trying to pretend he stuffed hot greasy sausages into his pockets every day of his life; the wink simply dared the old gentleman to comment on or even think of the remarkable act.
C.S. Forester
#22. At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes.
Wilbur Smith
#23. An angry man will find himself in an angry world, and a swindler will find himself in a world of thieves whom he dare not trust. Like attracts and mirrors like.
H.M. Forester
#24. I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
C.S. Forester
#25. I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower.'
That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing ...
C.S. Forester
#26. When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.
C.S. Forester
#27. Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
C.S. Forester
#28. Hornblower bowed to Lady This and Lady That, to Lord Somebody and to Sir John Somebody-else. Bold eyes and bare arms, exquisite clothes and blue Garter-ribbons, were all the impressions Hornblower received.
C.S. Forester
#29. Their methods were especially crude and most of these former friends were now born again model citizens; lobotomized; or burnt out shells.
H.M. Forester
#30. It seems to me that it don't hurt none to get yourself a dream and a plan. 'Cause if you don't, then you'll never go nowhere.
Victoria Forester
#31. I had no more conception of what it meant to be a forester than the man in the moon ... But at least a forester worked in the woods and with the woods - and I loved the woods and everything about them ... My Father's suggestion settled the question in favor of forestry.
Gifford Pinchot
#32. With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.
C.S. Forester
#34. Maybe like the never-ending stories within stories of the One Thousand and One Nights, life is dream within dream all the way through?
H.M. Forester
#35. At that moment, he was meaner and madder than he'd ever been, but mainly at himself, which is the worst kind of mean and mad to be, because the only thing to do about it is to take it out on someone else.
Victoria Forester
#38. Death was hardest on the living. - Cody Forester, Wolfsbane Brew
Roxanne Smolen
#39. Dang! Look at that RAINBOW! Piper shouted, accidently spewing bits of apple pie from her overstuffed mouth. All quickly turned and saw ...
... exactly what Piper claimed, a rainbow.
Victoria Forester
#40. Just two naked guys enjoying a manly hug in the middle of the apocalypse. - Cody Forester, Werewolf Apocalypse
Roxanne Smolen
#41. If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George Patton Jr. (1885-1945)
Thad Forester
#42. Yes, we are in a real pickle. Welcome to the pan-galactic insane asylum.
H.M. Forester
#44. They managed to find time ... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
C.S. Forester
#45. I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.
C.S. Forester
#46. There really is more to this world than meets the casual or untutored eye.
H.M. Forester
#48. Is that a banana in your lunch box, or are you just pleased to see me?
H.M. Forester
#49. All you had to do was crack up and beg to see the Governor; grovel at his feet and admit to being a dissident; heartily repent your sins, and volunteer for elective brain surgery.
H.M. Forester
#50. There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
C.S. Forester
#51. Great. The part of the lovable dog will be played by Cody the Wolf. - Cody Forester, Werewolf Asylum
Roxanne Smolen
#52. Her anxiety was turning her usually sunny disposition into something less than hospitable. "As
Amanda Forester
#53. As simple as that, Conrad had finally done it. For the first time in his life he had the right answer. It wasn't the best decision and certainly wasn't a logical one, but it was the right one.
Victoria Forester
#54. Irresponsibility was something which, in the very nature of things, could not co-exist with independence.
C.S. Forester
#55. The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
C.S. Forester
#56. From what I see, there are only two types of pack members--the hierarchy who are power hungry and the peons who are power less. - Cody Forester, Wolfsbane Brew
Roxanne Smolen
#57. Violet sighed in the way you do when you know something bad is going to happen, but hope against hope that it won't, but it does anyway and you realize that you always knew it would and were stupid for having made yourself believe that you could stop it.
Victoria Forester
#58. My husband was getting his sea legs-rereading Joseph Conrad with a side order of C S Forester.
Enid Nemy
#59. The village of Wall watched the battle of wills with fascination, wondering what the outcome would be, for no one crossed Bridget Forester: she had a tongue that could, the villagers said, blister the paint from a barn door and tear the bark from an oak.
Neil Gaiman
#60. Though there are very serious disadvantages about being a true believer. Who would want four wives at any time, especially when one pays for the doubtful privilege by abstaining from wine?
C.S. Forester
#61. There's nowhere else to escape to ... Except in a wooden box, that is.
H.M. Forester
#62. A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.
C.S. Forester
#63. There are universal laws at work, even here. The Law of Attraction; the Law of Correspondence; and the Law of Karma. That is: like attracts like; as within, so without; and what goes around comes around.
H.M. Forester
#64. When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
C.S. Forester
#65. Sorcery rules the world. Of course, most don't call it sorcery; indeed, many would be horrified by such a notion.
H.M. Forester
#66. The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.
C.S. Forester
#67. The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.
C.S. Forester
#68. The stinks of the true believers have to be smelt to be believed.
C.S. Forester
#69. Her heart swelled with an emotion she had never felt before. Did she dare call it love? For the second time tonight, she suspected her heart had ignored all her warnings that falling in love with the forester was imprudent and impossible. Oh, dear heaven, what am I to do now? Her
Melanie Dickerson
#70. Hey, lighten up ... This is only a game, you know.
H.M. Forester
#71. I'd rather be in trouble for having done something than for not having done anything.
C.S. Forester
#72. I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.
C.S. Forester
#73. Hornblower worked as hard to conceal his human weaknesses as some men worked to conceal ignoble birth.
C.S. Forester
#74. I'm as light as a cloud, as free as a bird. I'm part of the sky and I can fly.
Victoria Forester
#75. The fact of the matter is, the minute you get a mouthful of blue sky dancing across your taste buds there's no keeping you from it.
Victoria Forester
#76. I hung up and fed myself a slug of Old Forester to brace my nerves for the interview.
Raymond Chandler
#77. The night I was born, my great uncle Moanea, the village forester, shot a wolf. The villagers roasted it in the fire and fed the meat to the dogs.
Teodor Flonta
#78. Real patience is not the same as waiting impatiently for something for a long time. Patience is having patience with patience.
H.M. Forester
#79. The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.
C.S. Forester
#80. We're all teased or pressured into conforming to the all-levelling social norms of mediocrity.
H.M. Forester
#81. I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.
C.S. Forester
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