Geoffrey Household Quotes

#1. When I started 'First Blood,' back in 1968, I was deeply influenced by Geoffrey Household's 'Rogue Male.'

David Morrell

#2. One does not, I think, kill oneself without a definite desire to do so. It is hardly ever an act to which a man must key himself up; it is a temptation which he must struggle against.

Geoffrey Household

#3. The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#4. My experience is that relationships can be difficult, hard work. I love to be in a relationship.

Julie Delpy

#5. None of my mental activities for the past twenty-four hours might be called thinking. I had allowed my body to take charge. It knew far more about escaping and healing than I did.

Geoffrey Household

#6. I distrust patriotism; the reasonable man can find little in these days that is worth dying for. But dying against - there's enough iniquity in Europe to carry the most urbane or decadent into battle.

Geoffrey Household

#7. Her skin was not a surface; it was an indefinite glory of the palest rose and orange that chose to mould itself to those tense limbs.

Geoffrey Household

#8. A typical battlefield of this struggle is Hawaii, America's most deceptively beautiful state. For most residents and visitors, it seems an unspoiled island paradise. In actuality it is a killing field of biological diversity. When

Edward O. Wilson

#9. I like to see a billy-goat accompanying the dairy herd to pasture, supposedly to bring them luck or to eat the herbs that cause abortion.

Geoffrey Household

#10. Purity in body and heart
May please some
as for me, I make no boast.
For, as you know, no master of a household
Has all of his utensils made of gold;
Some are wood, and yet they are of use.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#11. You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

Maurice Sendak

#12. A well-trained diplomat is supposed to write French, for example, like an angel, but to speak it with the peculiar gutlessness of a Geneva nancy-boy.

Geoffrey Household

#13. I have always been sure that if England were ever occupied its people would find the organization of underground cells an almost effortless means of self-expression.

Geoffrey Household

#14. The only periods, I suspect, when a man feels captain of his soul are those when he has not the slightest need of such an organ.

Geoffrey Household

#15. There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#16. I would go to the doctor in Beverly Hills every day at five in the morning to get tested to see if I was ovulating. I was trying everything: I did acupuncture and got a nutritionist to eat healthier, thinking that was an issue.

Kim Kardashian

#17. When I heard that she was dead, I really suffered very little.

Geoffrey Household

#18. Not even in a movie had I ever seen a wife with a journey of her own. Marriage was always the happy end, not the beginning. It was the 1950s, and I confused growing up with settling down.

Gloria Steinem

#19. The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.

Jean De La Bruyere

#20. Love's only business is to preserve the race, not the individual.

Geoffrey Household

#21. I have never taken sides, never leaped wholeheartedly into one scale or the other; nor do I realize disappointments, provided they are severe, until the occasion is long past. Yet I am ruled by my emotions, though I murder them at birth.

Geoffrey Household

#22. He who has learned not to intrude his emotions upon his fellows has also learned not to intrude them upon himself.

Geoffrey Household