Geoffrey Madan quotes

“Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.”
-- Geoffrey Madan

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“The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset.”
-- Geoffrey Madan

Source : 'Livre sans nom: Twelve Reflections' (privately printed 1934) no. 12

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“Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve.”
-- Geoffrey Madan

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“The cat which isn't let out of the bag often becomes a skeleton in the cupboard.”
-- Geoffrey Madan

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“To change an opinion without a mental process is the mark of the uneducated.”
-- Geoffrey Madan

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“When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.”

“There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.”

“I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.”

“I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the husband's family name - she is in effect lost, evaporated from all records under her maiden name. I finally understand the anger behind feminism - the idea that as a woman you are property to be conveyed between your father and your husband, but never an individual who exists independently. And on the flip side, it is also one of the few ways one can legitimately get lost - no one questions it.”

“My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.”

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

“I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.”

“There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.”

“Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 20 Apr. 1989.

“It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.”

“When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.”