A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

- Joyce Cary

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

- Joyce Cary

Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.

- Joyce Cary

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

- Joyce Cary

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

- Joyce Cary

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

- Joyce Cary

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

- Joyce Cary

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

- Joyce Cary

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

- Joyce Cary