Top 5 Hal Porter Quotes (2024 Update)

Hal Porter Quote: “How ruthless and vile and hard and right the young are.”

1. “How ruthless and vile and hard and right the young are.”

2. “The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central fear a fear of intellect.”

— Hal Porter

3. “I cannot consider fighting in competitive Manly Fun any more than I can consider pitting my running, swimming or climbing body against other bodies. Nothing, then, or now, arouses me or will ever arouse me from a perfect disinterest in ball games.”

— Hal Porter

4. “Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my childhood ends forever. I see what poets are.”

— Hal Porter

5. “Now, I can smile at the stock quality of these friends, these uniforms. these looking-glasses, these sharers. Each is a character lifted straight from literature and yet, life successfully aping art, they are alive, and fulfil their destinies – or act their parts – flawlessly.”

— Hal Porter

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