Quote

The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.

C. S. Forester

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

C. S. Forester
Age: 66 †
Born: 1899
Born: January 1
Died: 1966
Died: January 1
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Cairo
Egypt
Cecil Lewis Troughton Smith
Cecil Scott Forester
Though
Whores
Proceeding
Ran
Fools
Foolish
Realized
Fool
Stupid

More quotes by C. S. Forester

Image
Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
C. S. Forester
Image
I'd rather be in trouble for having done something than for not having done anything.
C. S. Forester
Image
When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.
C. S. Forester
Image
The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.
C. S. Forester
Image
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
C. S. Forester
Image
I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.
C. S. Forester
Image
A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.
C. S. Forester