Top 100 Quotes About Iles
#1. Greed, apathy, hubris - even loyalty - all demand payment in the end. Storms will always come, and men will always do evil in the shadow of some other word.
Greg Iles
#2. People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.
Greg Iles
#3. Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.
George Iles
#4. I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.
Greg Iles
#5. Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children, because they're more certain they are their own.
Greg Iles
#6. McCrae was the kind of southerner who had only left the parish of his birth to serve his country in wartime or to carry bulls across the state for mating purposes.
Greg Iles
#7. And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out.
Greg Iles
#8. They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who stand nearest to them, and within arm's reach. A guide ceases to be of any use when he strides so far ahead as to be hidden by the curvature of the earth.
George Iles
#9. All partnerships fail in the end, just like marriages. The only life after death any human being will ever know is staying in a marriage or a partnership after it's over. And that's not life - it's living death.
Greg Iles
#10. You know, the truth isn't hard to find, if you're willing to get your hands dirty. Truth waits just under the surface for any man brave enough to scrape a little dirt away. But most people are too afraid or too lazy to get dirty. They're afraid to ask the right questions. The hard questions.
Greg Iles
#11. Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
George Iles
#12. The mills of the gods grind slowly....but they grind to dust.
Greg Iles
#13. Mom covers the wrought-iron patio table with newspaper, and Dad dumps the steaming crawfish
Greg Iles
#14. You can't build happiness on someone else's pain.
Greg Iles
#15. Let me tell you a secret, Caitlin. We're still in the cave. It's just bigger, and we wear nicer clothes. We make alliances and try to be civil, we save the weak instead of leaving them out in the cold to die ...
Greg Iles
#16. Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.
Greg Iles
#18. The temptation to second-guess is strong. But I must remember one thing.
Life is simple.
You are healthy or you are sick. You are faithful to your wife or you aren't. You are alive or you are dead.
I am alive.
Greg Iles
#19. The colonel had a single vice - whiskey - and he looked forward to the anesthetic burn of the Kentucky bourbon with sublime anticipation.
Greg Iles
#20. My father served as an Army doctor in West Germany in the late '50s and early '60s. As a result, he and my mother - both native southerners - were acutely aware of what had happened during the Holocaust.
Greg Iles
#21. As I turned toward it, a premonitory wave of heat flashed across my neck and shoulders, and I felt the dry itch of the past rubbing against the present.
Greg Iles
#22. When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.
George Iles
#23. We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.
George Iles
#24. Southern Gothic is alive and well. It's not just a genre, it is a way of life.
Greg Iles
#26. A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.
George Iles
#27. God is merely a part of the human brain, an evolutionary coping mechanism that developed to make bearable our awareness of our own deaths. When
Greg Iles
#28. Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be wedding this blossom to another in the next county.
George Iles
#29. Deer were damn good swimmers, though not many people knew it.
Greg Iles
#30. Elbowed Danny. You think Shields is the father of that baby?
Greg Iles
#31. fervent, will not cure the afflicted. Nor
Greg Iles
#32. Sheriff Dennis lifts an Ole Miss coffee mug off the desk and spits tobacco juice into it. "I like spitting on the Rebels," he says distractedly.
Greg Iles
#33. But as my mother always said: You never know what's cooking in someone else's pot.
Greg Iles
#34. Don't keep a girl guessing too long, or she'll find the answer somewhere else.
Greg Iles
#35. Mississippi blood is different. It's got some river in it. Delta soil, turpentine, asbestos, cotton poison. But there's strength in it, too. Strength that's been beat but not broke.
Greg Iles
#36. The irrevocable events of our lives happen in seconds, sometimes fractions of seconds.
Greg Iles
#37. between us. That night I prayed like a man trying to polish coal
Greg Iles
#38. I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function.
Greg Iles
#39. A man walks the straight and narrow all his life; he follows the rules, stays within the lines; then one day he makes a misstep. He crosses a line and sets in motion a chain of events that will take from him everything he has and damn him forever in the eyes of those he loves.
Greg Iles
#40. Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.
George Iles
#41. Men fantasize about wanton women, but when they meet one, they're paralyzed by fear.
Greg Iles
#42. I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.
Greg Iles
#43. Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.
Greg Iles
#44. Sometimes we think we are moving randomly. But random behavior is rare in humans. We are always spiraling around something, whether we see it or not, a secret center of gravity with the invisible power of a black hole.
Greg Iles
#45. Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.
Greg Iles
#46. As we move, a roar like the voice of some satanic creature bellows from the staircase. The fire's voice. I've heard it in lots of places, and the sound turns my insides to jelly. There's a reason human beings will jump ten floors onto concrete to escape being burned alive. That roar is part of it.
Greg Iles
#47. Even chitlins smell good to a starving man.
Greg Iles
#48. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde
Greg Iles
#49. Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.
Greg Iles
#50. We're all terrified by rattlesnakes, but the spider we brush off our sleeve with hardly a thought is far more likely to hurt us.
Greg Iles
#52. treachery, weakness, envy, fanaticism - the most destructive forces available to man.
Greg Iles
#53. PET scan and gene therapy. "I need you
Greg Iles
#54. Boundaries which mark off one field of science from another are purely artificial, are set up only for temporary convenience. Let chemists and physicists dig deep enough, and they reach common ground.
George Iles
#55. Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.
George Iles
#56. I don't say it was hard, because everybody got it hard, some way.
Greg Iles
#57. We do not just belong to this universe, we are it.
Greg Iles
#58. I'm fickle, tied to a life that doesn't exist any more - true love, perfect life, good friends. Everything is so damned difficult for me! Like a never- ending dance where the choreographer is never satisfied!
Sarah Iles
#59. Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.
George Iles
#60. Because death is the end, and if a man doesn't speak before it silences him, then the things he holds closest die with him.
Greg Iles
#61. Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.
George Iles
#62. have crystal meth over in Natchez?" "Of course we do. I'm not interested in the meth. I'm interested in the men who make and sell it." Walker's eyes narrow, then go wide with comprehension. "And what exactly do you want me to do?
Greg Iles
#63. The evil prosper, and the innocent pay the bills for them.
Greg Iles
#64. A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use.
George Iles
#65. The larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.
Greg Iles
#66. I listened in amazement. You saw a face on an American street, or in an office, and you had no idea that a tragic epic lay behind it.
Greg Iles
#67. A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
George Iles
#69. Who gave of their time: Joe Files, MD, Rod Givens, MD,
Greg Iles
#70. her? I wonder. "Tom?" I say, taking advantage of
Greg Iles
#71. A man's biggest enemy is his mouth.
Greg Iles
#72. A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?
George Iles
#73. Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.
George Iles
#74. She's floating outside in the maternal holding pattern all women learn after they have children, one that serves them well after grandchildren come along.
Greg Iles
#75. When you drive down Cemetery Road, the angel appears to be looking directly at you. Yet once you pass the monument and look back over your shoulder, the angel is still looking at you. Thus the appellation: the Turning Angel.
Greg Iles
#76. When we reach the intersection with Homochitto Street, I turn right, into town, and soon we're passing Dunleith, the antebellum mansion that I always say makes Tara from Gone with the Wind look like a woodshed.
Greg Iles
#77. The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that.
Greg Iles
#78. learned a long time ago, if you're going to wait for this world to be fair, you're going to be waiting in the grave.
Greg Iles
#79. Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.
George Iles
#80. ...yet he [Levon] somehow sings with the wounded humanity of a man without a tribe, a man who has known both love and grief and understands that one is the price of the other.
Greg Iles
#81. Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.
George Iles
#82. Albert didn't know how that skinny school teacher could take what Willie gave her. But that was another thing he'd learned over the years; the size of the woman on the outside didn't mean nothing. It was how much hunger she had on the inside that made her what she was between the sheets.
Greg Iles
#83. There's nothing harder than fighting alone, with no one to keep you company in your foxhole.
Greg Iles
#84. Dumbness and silence are two different things.
George Iles
#85. Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.
Greg Iles
#86. Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.
George Iles
#87. Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.
George Iles
#88. For once the stone hits the surface of the pond, the ripples never really stop.
Greg Iles
#89. The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.
Greg Iles
#90. For Sweden, the price of aiding the Allies could be fifty thousand uninvited guests
Greg Iles
#91. Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
George Iles
#92. God is all powerful.
God is good.
Evil exists.
You can reconcile any two of those statements, but not all three.
Greg Iles
#93. When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.
Greg Iles
#94. You never wear red to no funeral; red says the dead person was a fool.
Greg Iles
#95. No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.
George Iles
#96. At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. - Aristotle
Greg Iles
#97. My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.
Greg Iles
#98. Suspicion is a tenuous thing, so impalpable that the exact moment of its birth is not easy to determine.
Francis Iles
#99. When we try to imagine a chaos we fail ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.
George Iles
#100. I deal with the human psychology and evil. They are my twin issues.
Greg Iles
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