6+ William Mcilvanney Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best William Mcilvanney quotes and sayings.

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable. — William Mcilvanney

That would have been a nice place, inside an idea, but it wasn't a place to live. It was necessary to live where the idea and the fact collided. — William Mcilvanney

There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding. — William Mcilvanney

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity. — William Mcilvanney

Just as the apparent openness of rectitude will have its hidden places where foul things moulder in the dark, so, in the shadowed lives of those outside the law may sometimes be found concealed honesty and naive ideals. — William Mcilvanney

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice. — William Mcilvanney