Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.
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
Business
Much
Solvent
People
Swiss
Neat
Nationalism
Clean
Quite
More quotes by William Faulkner
You don’t love because: you love despite not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
William Faulkner
We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.
William Faulkner
You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.
William Faulkner
You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don't know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
William Faulkner
For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863...
William Faulkner
You have to write badly in order to write well.
William Faulkner
That's sad too, people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today
William Faulkner
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.
William Faulkner
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
William Faulkner
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
William Faulkner
Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.
William Faulkner
Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.
William Faulkner
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
William Faulkner
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.
William Faulkner
I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.
William Faulkner
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
William Faulkner
If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.
William Faulkner
Read, read read. Read everything.
William Faulkner
Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest
William Faulkner
