John Christopher Quotes

As Pa said, censorship encouraged people to believe nonsense.

I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the days that came after. Pleasant, but alas, impossible. That which had brought us together had gone, and now our paths diverged, according to our natures and needs. We would meet again, from time to time, but always a little more as strangers; until perhaps at last, as old men with only memories left, we could sit together and try to share them.

Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.

There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy.

There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.

Some people are oil and water.

His anger was as great as mine, but hot where mine was cold.

We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.

The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.

What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.

And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.

You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat.

It is because they are so strong that she hides her feelings.

I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.

What men do matters more than what they know.