Quotes from G.B. Edwards

I don't know what young fellows want to go in for those sort of things for?" I said. "Wars are a waste of time; and advertising is all lies." "I am afraid, my dear Mister Le Page," he said, looking very sorry for me, "you are an anachronism.

In the twinkling of an eye a veil is lifted; and you see with other eyes and hear with other ears and are given another understanding.

I reckon it is up to us to treat each other better than the Lord do, and teach Him a lesson.

Having children is a lottery and you never know what you are going to draw out. Perhaps it is as well I got none.

Is all one generation can do to set the stage for the comic, sad story of the next?

Ci ho pensato spesso. Dicono che i bambini nascono dall'amore reciproco tra i genitori. Non mi risulta. Forse nascono perché l'amore tra i genitori non è perfetto. Forse vengono al mondo attraverso una crepa che c'è fra i due genitori. Non so.

When you got nobody to love and nothing to live for, you can always make money.

I remember too well how I thought at times when it comes down to rock bottom, I didn't care tuppence about anything, or anybody, except myself; and that everybody else was the same. If this is true, it is something a man should not know. It may be it was the one lesson we learnt from the Occupation, but it was the wrong lesson.