Its only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness. – Lawrence Durrell
A womans best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. – Lawrence Durrell
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. – Lawrence Durrell
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time… love lavished on absolute fools. Loves a charity ward, you know. – Lawrence Durrell
Old age is an insult. Its like being smacked. – Lawrence Durrell
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. – Lawrence Durrell
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time – those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything. – Lawrence Durrell
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. – Lawrence Durrell
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. – Lawrence Durrell
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. – Lawrence Durrell
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential – the imagination. – Lawrence Durrell
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. – Lawrence Durrell
