Quotes from Bryce Courtenay

First with the head and then with the heart.

my only desire is to teach the word o' man and leave the word o' Gawd to the pulpit men

I spoke the language the sentences that had lied their grandfathers and sent their grandmothers to the worlds first concentration camps.

Mix the head with the heart, and you're ahead from the start.

Morrie, as usual, had made his point: good conversational debate is an end to itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human. p385

He was notorious for cutting short extraneous verbiage from over-loquacious barristers.

Nothing is unexplained. Nature is a chain reaction. Everything is dependent on something else. The smallest is as important as the largest

Luck is a curious companion, it comes to those who believe they hold it, and is an elusive servant to those who doubt they possess it.

The joy of a small town lies in its unchanging nature.

Then I felt like having a piss and I did that

Humans best survive when they are given a purpose; a common enemy to defeat, revenge to wreak or a dream to cling to.

without courage, there is no luck and no hope. He who dares, wins.

The smile, madame, is used by humans to hide the truth, the artist is only interested to reveal the truth.

First with the head, and then with the heart, that way small can beat big.

As a small child I had discovered that only two places are available to those who wish to remain concealed. The choices are to be a nonentity or an exception. You either disappear into a plebeian background or move forward to where most others fear to follow.

It seemed certain now that small could defeat big. All it took was brains and skills and heart and a perfect plan.

The time we are given for parenting is so short, passes so quickly and is jumbled up with so many other priorities and disruptions that, in the end, we come to doubt that we used it in the best interests of our children.

I learned that the greatest camouflage of all is consistency. If you do something often enough and at the same time in the same way, you become invisible.

in each of us there is a flame that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it burns within us, we cannot be destroyed.

but I feel sure that if people played music rather than spoke to each other, this world would be a much better place.

But I started to realize that it doesn't begin like this, that anybody can be the target for prejudice, all you have to be is too something . Too short, too fat, too clever, too big, too small, too slow, too new, too different from what others think of as normal.

It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone.

Turning to Ann Gower, she smiled. "You're a good woman, Ann Gower." Ann Gower drew back and looked askance at Mary. "Don't you go ruinin' me reputation, Mary Abacus. I be a real bad woman, but a bloody good whore, and you knows it!

ou can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural.