Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.
Katherine Anne Porter
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Katherine Anne Porter
Age: 90 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 15
Died: 1980
Died: September 18
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Indian Creek
Texas
Life
Bush
Weather
Played
Game
Games
More quotes by Katherine Anne Porter
I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.
Katherine Anne Porter
You waste life when you waste good food.
Katherine Anne Porter
Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.
Katherine Anne Porter
Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.
Katherine Anne Porter
Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
Katherine Anne Porter
Death is loneliness in its purest form.
Katherine Anne Porter
Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.
Katherine Anne Porter
we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.
Katherine Anne Porter
I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
Katherine Anne Porter
With the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched.
Katherine Anne Porter
I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you.
Katherine Anne Porter
I work whenever I'm let.
Katherine Anne Porter
The past is never where you think you left it.
Katherine Anne Porter
Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present the whole University system is rotten to the core, and an appalling waste of time, energy and money.
Katherine Anne Porter
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
Katherine Anne Porter
There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.
Katherine Anne Porter
I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.
Katherine Anne Porter
Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
Katherine Anne Porter
I can pray better when I'm comfortable.
Katherine Anne Porter
I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.
Katherine Anne Porter
