Joseph Furphy Quotes

#1. Who can control his fate? asks the ruined Othello. No one, indeed. But everyone controls his option, chooses his alternative.

Joseph Furphy

#2. Age cannot limit him, nor use exhaust his infinite mendacity.

Joseph Furphy

#3. He squeezed her hand. "Then I'll come get you, wherever you are when it happens. We'll be okay."
"But what about everybody else?"
He stared out across the river, nodding slowly. "My guess is, everybody else is in big trouble.

Scott Westerfeld

#4. I've found out more in this one cursed night than I'd have learned in twenty years of living.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.

Charles Clarke

#6. History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that.

Rick Yune

#7. 'English fair play' is a fine expression. It justifies the bashing of the puny draper's assistant by the big hairy blacksmith, and this to the perfect satisfaction of both parties, if they are worthy the name of Englishman.

Joseph Furphy

#8. Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere nonentity. But let me not hear any small witticism to the further effect that its story is a tale told by a vulgarian, full of slang and blanky, signifying-nothing.

Joseph Furphy

#9. Time is really just a test of patience.

Lauren Oliver