Jey > Jey's Quotes

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."

(Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2003)”
― Edward W. Said

“الأرض كلها فندق.. وبيتي القدس”
― إدوارد سعيد

“I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.”
― Harold Pinter, Betrayal

“Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.”
― Harold Pinter

“I can't really articulate what I feel,”
― Harold Pinter

“Man can learn everything if he will but try.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“God has put us on earth to love our neighbors and to show it, and He is omnipresent, even in India, to see how we are succeeding.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“One no more owes one's beauty to a lover than one's wit to an echo”
― william congreve, The Way of the World