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Top 10 J. G. Farrell Quotes (2024 Update)

J. G. Farrell Quote: “Why on earth should we be at each other’s throats? Why do people insist on defending their ideas and opinions with such ferocity, as if defending honour itself? What could be easier to change than an idea?”

1. “Why on earth should we be at each other’s throats? Why do people insist on defending their ideas and opinions with such ferocity, as if defending honour itself? What could be easier to change than an idea?”

— J. G. Farrell

J. G. Farrell Quote: “Culture is a sham,’ he said simply. ‘It’s a cosmetic painted on life by rich people to conceal its ugliness.’ Fleury.”

2. “Culture is a sham,’ he said simply. ‘It’s a cosmetic painted on life by rich people to conceal its ugliness.’ Fleury.”

— J. G. Farrell

J. G. Farrell Quote: “War is only a passing phase in business life... If you want my opinion there’s nothing like a spot of patriotism for blinding people to reality.”

3. “War is only a passing phase in business life... If you want my opinion there’s nothing like a spot of patriotism for blinding people to reality.”

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J. G. Farrell Quote: “A great deal of thought must be given to your daughter’s marriage. Otherwise, she will simply slink off like a cat on a dark night to be fertilized under a bush to God knows whom!”

4. “A great deal of thought must be given to your daughter’s marriage. Otherwise, she will simply slink off like a cat on a dark night to be fertilized under a bush to God knows whom!”

— J. G. Farrell

J. G. Farrell Quote: “The British could leave and half India wouldn’t notice us leaving just as they didn’t notice us arriving. All our reforms of administration might be reforms on the moon for all it has to do with them...”

5. “The British could leave and half India wouldn’t notice us leaving just as they didn’t notice us arriving. All our reforms of administration might be reforms on the moon for all it has to do with them...”

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J. G. Farrell Quote: “At the same time he realized with a shock how much his own faith in the Church’s authority, or in the Christian view of the world in which he had hitherto lived his life, had diminished since he had last inspected them. From the farmyard in which his certitudes perched like fat chickens, every night of the siege, one or two were carried off in the jaws of rationalism and despair. Another.”

6. “At the same time he realized with a shock how much his own faith in the Church’s authority, or in the Christian view of the world in which he had hitherto lived his life, had diminished since he had last inspected them. From the farmyard in which his certitudes perched like fat chickens, every night of the siege, one or two were carried off in the jaws of rationalism and despair. Another.”

— J. G. Farrell

J. G. Farrell Quote: “How few human beings, the major thought with a sigh, can exert by hard work, thrift, intelligence or any other virtue the slightest influence on their own destiny.”

7. “How few human beings, the major thought with a sigh, can exert by hard work, thrift, intelligence or any other virtue the slightest influence on their own destiny.”

— J. G. Farrell

J. G. Farrell Quote: “He glanced at her, musing on the wonder of a beautiful woman with a disagreeable personality.”

8. “He glanced at her, musing on the wonder of a beautiful woman with a disagreeable personality.”

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J. G. Farrell Quote: “The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.”

9. “The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.”

— J. G. Farrell

J. G. Farrell Quote: “But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond.”

10. “But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond.”

— J. G. Farrell

J. G. Farrell Quote: “It is distressing to have to act under the impulsive orders of someone who, in a situation which concerns you deeply, does not know what he is talking about.”

11. “It is distressing to have to act under the impulsive orders of someone who, in a situation which concerns you deeply, does not know what he is talking about.”

— J. G. Farrell

J. G. Farrell Quote: “Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved.”

12. “Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved.”

— J. G. Farrell

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