Hubert Butler quotes

“Goodness often blossoms like roses on very rickety trellis-work, and beauty can grow out of nonsense.”
-- Hubert Butler

Source : Hubert Butler (1988). “The Children of Drancy”, Lilliput Press

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“Where life is fully and consciously lived in our own neighborhood, we are cushioned a little from the impact of great far-off events which should be of only marginal concern to us.”
-- Hubert Butler

Source : Hubert Butler, Robert Fitzroy Foster (1990). “The sub-prefect should have held his tongue and other essays”, Viking Adult

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“There are no grounds for supposing that one can live a life without pain and sadness, but is it wrong to believe that somehow, somewhere, this is possible?”
-- Hubert Butler

Source : Hubert Butler, Robert Fitzroy Foster (1990). “The sub-prefect should have held his tongue and other essays”, Viking Adult

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“Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.”

“So, timely you came, and well you chose, You came when most needed, my winter rose. From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness.”

Source : Alfred Austin, “My Winter Rose”

“Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as the dead.”

“Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.”

“I am convinced that any photographic attempt to show the complete man is nonsense. We can only show, as best we can, what the outer man reveals. The inner man is seldom revealed to anyone, sometimes not even the man himself.”

“To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.”

Source : Big Bill Haywood (1929). “Bill Haywood's book”

“Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.”

“Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.”

Source : Ali Smith (2007). “The Accidental”, p.49, Anchor

“For God is good - or rather, of all goodness He is the Fountainhead.”