Quotes from book

Vile Bodies

“After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.”

“There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.”

“I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.”

“I can't bare you when you're not amusing.”

“Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.”

“All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.”

“A copy of Dante's Purgatorio excited his especial disgust."French, eh?" he said. "I guessed as much, and pretty dirty too, I shouldn't wonder. Now just you wait while I look up these here books"—how he said it!—"in my list. Particularly against books the Home Secretary is. If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside."”

“Creative Endeavour lost her wings, Mrs. Ape.”