William Faulkner: Trending quotes (page 5)

“I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.”

“Love doesn't die; the men and women do.”

“Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”

“He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.”

“Caddy smelled like trees.”

“This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.”

“Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.”

“A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.”

“It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible”

“I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.”

“She was the captain of her soul”

“History is not was, it is.”

“I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.”

“I am not one of those women who can stand things.”

“And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.”

“It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.”

“War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.”

“To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.”

“I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue…”