Alice Thomas Ellis is a British writer who is best known for her novels, short stories, and non-fiction works. Her works often explore themes of faith, family, and the human condition. She is also the author of the popular novel The 27th Kingdom, which was adapted into a television mini-series in 1982.
What is the most famous quote by Alice Thomas Ellis ?
Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.
— Alice Thomas Ellis
What can you learn from Alice Thomas Ellis (Life Lessons)
- Alice Thomas Ellis encourages readers to embrace the beauty of the everyday and to find joy in the small moments of life.
- She also encourages readers to think deeply about the complexities of life and to appreciate the nuances of human relationships.
- Through her writing, Ellis teaches us to be patient, kind and understanding of ourselves and others.
The most unique Alice Thomas Ellis quotes that are little-known but priceless
Following is a list of the best quotes, including various Alice Thomas Ellis inspirational quotes, and other famous sayings by Alice Thomas Ellis.
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.
things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.
Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.
Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.
One can get very fond of the people one meets in bars.
The trouble is they then appear sort of different in the daylight and you realize that taking them with you is rather like taking a goldfish for a walk: not entirely correct, and surprising for the next people you run into.
I have frequently thought that the dead should be buried with all their belongings. It seems weirdly perverse that their clothes should still be here when the people you love best in the world have gone.
when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.
Evil and laughter cannot co-exist.
Humorous quotes by Alice Thomas Ellis
There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.
Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.
Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.
I think the meaning of the universe is bound up with the egg.
... I am fed up with the meaning of the universe. Everything starts in the egg and ends in death. I think it's called 'the heartbreak at the heart of things.' But then perhaps our very mortality is an egg and at the moment of death our souls will emerge like damp chicks.
The snag in being married to a person who knows more or less everything is that one gets hopelessly lazy. ... I never look things up in books because all I need to do is ask him, and when he gives me the answers I don't properly commit them to memory because I know if I forget all I have to do is to ask him again. It is rather like keeping one's brain in a suitcase.
Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.
There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.
I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I have one mind and am out of it, but because I have lots of them, all beavering away on their own.