A.J. Cronin > Quotes

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

“That is life... to begin again when everything is lost!”
― A. J. Cronin

“Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley.
But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us”
― A.J. Cronin

“Hell is that state where one has ceased to hope.”
― A.J. Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom

“You are very attractive. And your greatest charm is that you do not realise it!”
― A.J. Cronin, The Citadel

“Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.”
― A.J. Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom

“Funny... I still can't believe in God."
"Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.”
― A. J. Cronin

“Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them”
― A.J. Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom

“Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.”
― A.J. Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom

“Every time I pass him he gives me the excommunication stare.”
― A J Cronin

“...happiness (is) an inner state, wholly spiritual, independent... of worldly possession.”
― A. J. Cronin

“I always stumble awkwardly with my clumsy tongue.”
― A.J. Cronin, Hatter's Castle

“If we go on trying to make out that everything’s wrong outside the profession and everything is right within, it means the death of scientific progress.”
― A.J. Cronin, The Citadel

“Если не давать воли своим чувствам, то можно убить всё, что заложено внутри.”
― A.J. Cronin

“Se estaba enseñando a sí mismo a pensar por su cuenta, a mirar detrás de las apariencias en un esfuerzo para descubrir la causa próxima”
― Dr. A. J. Cronin

“Luck is a state without the reason. Explore it and it will disappear.”
― Cronin, A.J.

“A wise man enjoys in what little he has,while a fool asks for more”
― Cronin, A.J.

“A goodness of a religion is best valued by a goodness of it's followers”
― Cronin, A.J., The Keys of the Kingdom

“You'll never make a leopard change his freckles.”
― A.J. Cronin, Three Loves

“Fitzgerald is like the curate’s egg, good, very good, in parts, but the rest of it …”
― A.J. Cronin, The Minstrel Boy

“...mercy and tolerance-with these two virtues,how wonderful Your land would have been!”
― Cronin, A.J., The Keys of the Kingdom

“wanted to find someone with whom I could discuss books and music; who would respond eagerly with his own views when I tried to articulate the new ideas towards which I was reaching out fumblingly. But whenever I brought up such subjects, I felt myself suspect of showing off, and quickly relapsed into silence.”
― A.J. Cronin, The Green Years

“God has given me the tongue,senor. Are you forbidding me to use it?”
― Cronin, A.J.

“You and I are birds that don't fly together.”
― A.J. Cronin, Hatter's Castle

“...the poor is the one who can never look forward.”
― Cronin, A.J.

“Christ preached everlasting love. He preached the brotherhood of man. He did not climb the mountain and shout, ‘Kill! Kill! Go forth in hatred and plunge a bayonet into thy brother’s belly!’ It isn’t his voice that resounds in the churches and high cathedrals of Christendom today—but the voice of timeservers and cowards.”
― A.J. Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom

“A tragedy can make some people sober, but for him, it drives in the opposite direction”
― A.J. Cronin, Hatter's Castle

“Don't overwork yourself,doctor. Sometimes a man must pay a tribute even to his senses”
― Cronin, A.J.

“Su aliento le llegaba anhelante y él lo sentía tibio sobre sus labios”
― A.J.CRONIN

“Todos conocemos el poder de la prensa... para bien o para mal. Es incalculable. Puede hacer o destruir a un individuo, crear o derrocar un gobierno: hasta podría, Dios nos libre de ello, provocar una guerra. La desgracia de nuestro país, actualmente, es la aplicación de ese poder, sin limitación ni responsabilidad, a fines indignos por ciertos periódicos de enorme circulación nacional y ello puede ser la ruina de Inglaterra.”
― A.J. Cronin, The Northern Light