Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
William Faulkner
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
Author
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
New Albany
Mississippi
William Cuthbert Faulkner
William Falkner
William Cuthbert Falkner
Men
Drink
Poor
Funny
War
Two
Things
Never
More quotes by William Faulkner
I decline to accept the end of man.
William Faulkner
It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.
William Faulkner
Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
William Faulkner
Truth that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
William Faulkner
Idleness breeds our better virtues.
William Faulkner
I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie
William Faulkner
Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.
William Faulkner
We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.
William Faulkner
I never promise a woman anything nor let her know what I'm going to give her. That's the only way to manage them. Always keep them guessing. If you cant think of any other way to surprise them, give them a bust in the jaw.
William Faulkner
A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don't square.
William Faulkner
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
William Faulkner
I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.
William Faulkner
The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.
William Faulkner
A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.
William Faulkner
Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.
William Faulkner
Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico
William Faulkner
My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.
William Faulkner
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
William Faulkner
In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.
William Faulkner
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
William Faulkner
