# Athol Fugard

- Quotes: 47
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/athol-fugard

## Books

- [MASTER HAROLD AND THE BOYS](https://www.leafyquotes.com/athol-fugard/master-harold-and-the-boys.md) — 47 quotes

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> Hally: It’s a bloody awful world when you come to think of it. People can be real bastards.
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> Sam: That’s the way it is, Hally.
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> Hally: It doesn’t have to be that way. There is something called progress you know. We don’t exactly burn people at the stake anymore.

p. 13 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/athol-fugard/master-harold-and-the-boys/hally-its-a-bloody.md)

> Don’t talk crap, Hally! You don’t even know what the word ‘sympathy’ means.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/athol-fugard/master-harold-and-the-boys/dont-talk-crap.md)

> Hally: Not many intellectuals are prepared to shovel manure with the peasants then go home and write a ‘little book’ called War and Peace. Incidentally, Sam, he was somebody else who, to quote, ‘…did not distinguish himself scholastically.

p. 20 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/athol-fugard/master-harold-and-the-boys/hally-not-many.md)

> I thought I was keeping it straight and I’ve suddenly wondered whether it is straight, and whether it matters whether it is or not.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/athol-fugard/master-harold-and-the-boys/i-thought-i-was.md)

> Do you think Fathers do any more for their sons, except in terms of money, that Mothers do for their daughters.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/athol-fugard/master-harold-and-the-boys/do-you-think.md)

> Hally: Anyway, that’s my man of magnitude. Charles Darwin! Who’s yours?
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> Sam: [without hesitation] Abraham Lincoln.
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> Hally: I might have guessed as much. Don’t get sentimental, Sam. You’ve never been a slave, you know. And anyway, we freed your ancestors here in South Africa long before the Americans.

p. 18 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/athol-fugard/master-harold-and-the-boys/hally-anyway-thats.md)

> Somebody once said that there are only two places you can be alone—inside your mother’s womb and inside your coffin.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/athol-fugard/master-harold-and-the-boys/somebody-once-said.md)

> She’s no match for him when it comes to a battle of words.

p. 33 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/athol-fugard/master-harold-and-the-boys/shes-no-match.md)

> You were scared of the ball because it was big and hard and could hurt you, just like life can hurt you.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/athol-fugard/master-harold-and-the-boys/you-were-scared.md)

> Doesn’t it sort of bug you that people like your dad can’t take care of the world?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/athol-fugard/master-harold-and-the-boys/doesnt-it-sort.md)

> Little white boy ... and a black man old enough to be his father flying a kite.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/athol-fugard/master-harold-and-the-boys/little-white-boy.md)

> Fly another kite, I suppose. It worked once, and this time I need it as much as you do."

p. 59 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/athol-fugard/master-harold-and-the-boys/fly-another-kite.md)