Bryce Courtenay Quotes

It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!

Sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency

What is a german? to say a man is a german, what is that? does it tell you if he is a good man? or a bad man? no, my friend, it tells you nothing about a man to say he is german. a man must think what...

I spoke the language that had pronounced the sentences that had killed their grandfathers and sent their grandmothers to the world's first concentration camps

In Mexico there is a cactus that even sometimes you would think God forgets. But no, my friends, this is not so. On a full moon in the desert every one hundred years He remembers and opens a single fl...

Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they do to the exceptionally gifted who, with the conf...

It seemed certain now that small could defeat big. All it took was brains and skills and heart and a perfect plan.

Nothing is unexplained. Nature is a chain reaction. Everything is dependent on something else. The smallest is as important as the largest

Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.

Absoloodle not

All i know about the bible is that wherever it goes there's trouble. the only time i ever heard of it being useful was when a stretcher bearer i was with at the battle of dundee told me that he'd once...

But I started to realize that it doesn't begin like this, that anybody can be the target for prejudice, all you have to be is too something . Too short, too fat, too clever, too big, too small, too sl...

It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.

But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.

Is intended to break the spirit, to render harmless those who are thought to be harmful.

. . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.

Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and chang...

I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.

Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it to tell you where to look, and then you will have for yourself all the brains that...

The joy of a small town lies in its unchanging nature.