Eric Linklater Quotes

Wanting to know an author because you like his books is like wanting to know a goose because you like pate.

I dislike burdens…and at my back I often hear Time’s winged chariot changing gear.

There won’t be any revolution in America… The people are all too clean. They spend all their time changing their shorts and washing themselves. You can’t feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.

It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears.

With a heavy step Sir Matthew left the room and spent the morning designing mausoleums for his enemies.

Authors and uncaptured criminals…are the only people free from routine.