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Hubert Butler Quotes

Goodness often blossoms like roses on very rickety trellis-work, and beauty can grow out of nonsense.

Goodness often blossoms like roses on very rickety trellis-work, and beauty can grow out of nonsense.

Hubert Butler
Rose, Nonsense, Goodness
Hubert Butler (1988). “The Children of Drancy”, Lilliput Press

Where life is fully and consciously lived in our own neighborhood, we are cushioned a little from the impact of great far-off events which should be of only marginal concern to us.

Hubert Butler
Impact, Events, Littles
Hubert Butler, Robert Fitzroy Foster (1990). “The sub-prefect should have held his tongue and other essays”, Viking Adult

There are no grounds for supposing that one can live a life without pain and sadness, but is it wrong to believe that somehow, somewhere, this is possible?

Hubert Butler
Pain, Believe, Sadness
Hubert Butler, Robert Fitzroy Foster (1990). “The sub-prefect should have held his tongue and other essays”, Viking Adult

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