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Top 20 Lisa Halliday Quotes (2025 Update)

Lisa Halliday Quote: “There’s an old saying, he said, about how the foreign journalist who travels to the Middle East and stays a week goes home and writes a book in which he presents a pat solution to all of its problems. If he stays a month, he writes a magazine or a newspaper article filled with ‘ifs,’ ‘buts,’ and ‘on the other hands.’ If he stays a year, he writes nothing at all.”

1. “There’s an old saying, he said, about how the foreign journalist who travels to the Middle East and stays a week goes home and writes a book in which he presents a pat solution to all of its problems. If he stays a month, he writes a magazine or a newspaper article filled with ‘ifs,’ ‘buts,’ and ‘on the other hands.’ If he stays a year, he writes nothing at all.”

— Lisa Halliday

Lisa Halliday Quote: “It’s impossible not to! Love is volatile. Recalcitrant. Irrepressible. We do our best to tame it, to name it and plan for it and maybe even to contain it between the hours of six and twelve, or if you’re Parisian five and seven, but like much of what is adorable and irresistible in this world it eventually tears free of you and, yes, sometimes you get scratched up in the process.”

2. “It’s impossible not to! Love is volatile. Recalcitrant. Irrepressible. We do our best to tame it, to name it and plan for it and maybe even to contain it between the hours of six and twelve, or if you’re Parisian five and seven, but like much of what is adorable and irresistible in this world it eventually tears free of you and, yes, sometimes you get scratched up in the process.”

— Lisa Halliday

Lisa Halliday Quote: “The problem with the idea that history repeats itself is that when it isn’t making us wiser it’s making us complacent.”

3. “The problem with the idea that history repeats itself is that when it isn’t making us wiser it’s making us complacent.”

— Lisa Halliday

Lisa Halliday Quote: “As soon as you are born the sand starts falling and only by demanding to be remembered do you stand a chance of it being upturned again and again.”

4. “As soon as you are born the sand starts falling and only by demanding to be remembered do you stand a chance of it being upturned again and again.”

— Lisa Halliday

Lisa Halliday Quote: “But wasn’t it also Crane who said that an artist is nothing but a powerful memory that can move itself at will through certain experiences sideways?”

5. “But wasn’t it also Crane who said that an artist is nothing but a powerful memory that can move itself at will through certain experiences sideways?”

— Lisa Halliday

Lisa Halliday Quote: “The word for bank is the same, but the word for money changer is not, and while I have never learned the etymology behind this minor asymmetry I can imagine it represents centuries of cultural and ideological dissidence.”

6. “The word for bank is the same, but the word for money changer is not, and while I have never learned the etymology behind this minor asymmetry I can imagine it represents centuries of cultural and ideological dissidence.”

— Lisa Halliday

Lisa Halliday Quote: “Alice was beginning to get very tired of all this sitting by herself with nothing to do: every so often she tried again to read the book in her lap, but it was made up almost exclusively of long paragraphs, and no quotation marks whatsoever, and what is the point of a book, thought Alice, that does not have any quotation marks?”

7. “Alice was beginning to get very tired of all this sitting by herself with nothing to do: every so often she tried again to read the book in her lap, but it was made up almost exclusively of long paragraphs, and no quotation marks whatsoever, and what is the point of a book, thought Alice, that does not have any quotation marks?”

— Lisa Halliday

Lisa Halliday Quote: “I felt in London the way you do when you take one step too many at the bottom of a flight of stairs: brought up short by the unexpected plateau and its dull, unyielding thud.”

8. “I felt in London the way you do when you take one step too many at the bottom of a flight of stairs: brought up short by the unexpected plateau and its dull, unyielding thud.”

— Lisa Halliday

Lisa Halliday Quote: “Well, if you say you’re Catholic and it looks like you’re getting close to the end, they send a priest around. If you’re Jewish, they send a rabbi around.” “And if you’re atheist?” “They send Christopher Hitchens around.”

9. “Well, if you say you’re Catholic and it looks like you’re getting close to the end, they send a priest around. If you’re Jewish, they send a rabbi around.” “And if you’re atheist?” “They send Christopher Hitchens around.”

— Lisa Halliday

Lisa Halliday Quote: “You observe what people do with their freedom – what they don’t do – and it’s impossible not to judge them for it.”

10. “You observe what people do with their freedom – what they don’t do – and it’s impossible not to judge them for it.”

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Lisa Halliday Quote: “Everyone – irreligious people included – relies on irreducible answers every day. All religion really does is to be honest about this, by giving the reliance a specific name: faith.”

11. “Everyone – irreligious people included – relies on irreducible answers every day. All religion really does is to be honest about this, by giving the reliance a specific name: faith.”

— Lisa Halliday

Lisa Halliday Quote: “I pointed out that the very proliferation of pseudo journalism these days, the cacophony of conjecture and partisan agendas and sensationalism that seem orchestrated above all to provoke and entertain, tended to leave me feeling as though I know less than ever what my government is doing in my name. Drinking, Alistair shrugged and nodded as if to concede: Yes, well, there’s always the moronic inferno.”

12. “I pointed out that the very proliferation of pseudo journalism these days, the cacophony of conjecture and partisan agendas and sensationalism that seem orchestrated above all to provoke and entertain, tended to leave me feeling as though I know less than ever what my government is doing in my name. Drinking, Alistair shrugged and nodded as if to concede: Yes, well, there’s always the moronic inferno.”

— Lisa Halliday

Lisa Halliday Quote: “The older you get,” he explained, “the more you have to do before you can go to bed. I’m up to a hundred things.”

13. “The older you get,” he explained, “the more you have to do before you can go to bed. I’m up to a hundred things.”

— Lisa Halliday

Lisa Halliday Quote: “You can tell when someone is unbedeviled by time.”

14. “You can tell when someone is unbedeviled by time.”

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Lisa Halliday Quote: “When, then, does one man’s delusion become the world’s reality? Is it every generation’s destiny to contend with a dictator’s whims? “By shrewd and constant application of propaganda,” we read in Mein Kampf, “heaven can be presented to the people as hell and, vice versa, the wretchedest experience as a paradise.” But only when the people in question fail in their duty toward vigilance. Only when through inaction we are complicit. Only when we are sleepwalking ourselves.”

15. “When, then, does one man’s delusion become the world’s reality? Is it every generation’s destiny to contend with a dictator’s whims? “By shrewd and constant application of propaganda,” we read in Mein Kampf, “heaven can be presented to the people as hell and, vice versa, the wretchedest experience as a paradise.” But only when the people in question fail in their duty toward vigilance. Only when through inaction we are complicit. Only when we are sleepwalking ourselves.”

— Lisa Halliday

Lisa Halliday Quote: “If only your great-grandfather had met a different woman. If only your parents had taken a later flight. If only your soul had sparked into being on a different continent, a different hemisphere, a different day.”

16. “If only your great-grandfather had met a different woman. If only your parents had taken a later flight. If only your soul had sparked into being on a different continent, a different hemisphere, a different day.”

— Lisa Halliday

Lisa Halliday Quote: “This is because my mind is always turning over this question of how I’m going to feel later, based on what I’m doing now. Later in the day. Later in the week. Later in a life starting to look like a series of activities designed to make me feel good later, but not now. Knowing I’ll feel good later makes me feel good enough now.”

17. “This is because my mind is always turning over this question of how I’m going to feel later, based on what I’m doing now. Later in the day. Later in the week. Later in a life starting to look like a series of activities designed to make me feel good later, but not now. Knowing I’ll feel good later makes me feel good enough now.”

— Lisa Halliday

Lisa Halliday Quote: “But then even someone who imagines for a living is forever bound by the ultimate constraint: she can hold her mirror up to whatever subject she chooses, at whatever angle she likes – she can even hold it such that she herself remains outside its frame, the better to de-narcissize the view – but there’s no getting around the fact that she’s always the one holding the mirror. And just because you can’t see yourself in a reflection doesn’t mean no one can.”

18. “But then even someone who imagines for a living is forever bound by the ultimate constraint: she can hold her mirror up to whatever subject she chooses, at whatever angle she likes – she can even hold it such that she herself remains outside its frame, the better to de-narcissize the view – but there’s no getting around the fact that she’s always the one holding the mirror. And just because you can’t see yourself in a reflection doesn’t mean no one can.”

— Lisa Halliday

Lisa Halliday Quote: “I’d found what few men found in that era, which was a woman wholly occupied by what she did, and wedded to it. So we parted.”

19. “I’d found what few men found in that era, which was a woman wholly occupied by what she did, and wedded to it. So we parted.”

— Lisa Halliday

Lisa Halliday Quote: “Some of us wage wars. Others write books. The most delusional ones write books. We have very little choice other than to spend our waking hours trying to sort out and make sense of the perennial pandemonium. To forge patterns and proportions where they don’t actually exist. And it is this same urge, this mania to tame and possess – this necessary folly – that sparks and sustains love.”

20. “Some of us wage wars. Others write books. The most delusional ones write books. We have very little choice other than to spend our waking hours trying to sort out and make sense of the perennial pandemonium. To forge patterns and proportions where they don’t actually exist. And it is this same urge, this mania to tame and possess – this necessary folly – that sparks and sustains love.”

— Lisa Halliday

Lisa Halliday Quote: “A young friend of mine has written a rather surprising little novel about this; about in its way. About the extent to which we’re able to penetrate the looking-glass and imagine a life, indeed a consciousness, that goes some way to reduce the blind spots in our own. It’s a novel that on the surface would seem to have nothing to do with its author, but in fact is a kind of veiled portrait of someone determined to transcend her provenance, her privilege, her naivete.”

21. “A young friend of mine has written a rather surprising little novel about this; about in its way. About the extent to which we’re able to penetrate the looking-glass and imagine a life, indeed a consciousness, that goes some way to reduce the blind spots in our own. It’s a novel that on the surface would seem to have nothing to do with its author, but in fact is a kind of veiled portrait of someone determined to transcend her provenance, her privilege, her naivete.”

— Lisa Halliday

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