Patrick Magee Quotes

Justin Caleb I've discovered things in this house that make me uneasy.

Justin Caleb I've known this family for a very long time. I've been aware of the atmosphere of depression and the slightly demented quality that hangs over it.

Justin Caleb Consider your mind as a bird in your hand. When its relaxed, it lies quiet and easy. But, when it's tense, frightened, it strains to leave you. Quite a simple principle, isn't it?

Lady Haloran You're engaged to treat my body, not my mind.

Marquis de Sade I've twisted and turned them every way, and can see no ending to our play.

Justin Caleb You know, the one thing in the world that really chills my bones to the marrow is when a pretty girl in a wedding dress looks at me and finds me repulsive.

Marquis de Sade Man has given a false importance to death. Any animal, man or plant that dies adds to Nature's compost heap, becomes the manure without which nothing could grow, nothing could be created. Death is simply part of the process. Every death, even the cruelest death, drowns in the total indifference of Nature. Nature would watch unmoved if we destroyed the entire human race. I hate Nature!

Marquis de Sade To me, the only reality is imagination; the world inside myself. The Revolution no longer interests me.

Marquis de Sade But what's the point of a revolution without general copulation?

Marquis de Sade It's easy to get mass movements moving. Movements that move in vicious circles. I don't believe in idealists who charge down blind alleys. I don't believe in any of the sacrifices that have been made for any cause. I believe only in myself.

Jean-Paul Marat I believe in the Revolution! We have routed out the old tyrants, and now we have new tyrants. But still I believe in the Revolution. The spoils have been grabbed by businessman, middle-men, financiers, salesmen, operators, manipulators. But the Revolution must continue.

Justin Caleb These nursery rhymes are notoriously expressive.

Justin Caleb Drink's the only road to survival in this climate. Despite your useless American education, you're still Irish, you know. Drink up.

Marquis de Sade Man is a destroyer. But if he kills and takes no pleasure in it, he's a machine. He should destroy with passion, like a man.

Marquis de Sade Compassion. Now, Marat, you are talking like an aristocrat. Compassion is the property of the privileged classes. When the pitier lowers himself to give to a beggar, he throbs with contempt. To protect his riches he pretends to be moved, and his gift to the beggar amounts to no more than a kick. No, Marat, no small emotions, please, your feelings were never petty. For you just as for me, only the most extreme actions matter.

Jean-Paul Marat If I am extreme I am not extreme in the same way as you. Against Nature’s silence I use action. In the vast indifference I invent a meaning. I don’t watch unmoved, I intervene and say that this and this are wrong, and I work to alter them and improve them. The important thing is to pull yourself up by your own hair, to turn yourself inside out and see the whole world with fresh eyes.