Colleen McCullough Quotes

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.

I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.

I like to tease people. I hate when people do it to me, though.

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy

I hate being told what to do! Especially by myself!

don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?

I hate taking myself seriously. It drives me crazy!

I resist change even as I call for it.

If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly ... to revere God and be God.

Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.

The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he was a melancholic with a loathing for mankind, on the other, some paralysis had twisted his mouth into a permanent and radiant smile. So everyone he met, being warmed by his smile, would shout him a happy greeting. And beaming upon them with his sunny face he would curse them all to hell.

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse.

A healer of others, himself diseased.

The most useless job in the world is that of the critic. That is a prejudiced statement. I admit it. I'm prejudiced. I hate critics. ... And now, as the saying goes (yesterday, I couldn't even spell critik), and now I are one.

For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.

Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.