# John Fowles - Quotes: 72 - Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles ## Books - [Daniel Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/daniel-martin.md) — 39 quotes - [The Aristos](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/the-aristos.md) — 5 quotes - [The Collector](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/the-collector.md) — 6 quotes - [The Ebony Tower](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/the-ebony-tower.md) — 3 quotes - [The French Lieutenant's Woman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/the-french-lieutenants-woman.md) — 8 quotes - [The Magus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/the-magus.md) — 11 quotes ## Recently added quotes > There was a bright wind, it was a Dufy day, all bustle, movement, animated colour.. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/daniel-martin/there-was-a-bright.md) > There are people who have an instinctive yet perfect moral judgment, who can perform the most complex ethical calculations like an Indian peasant can sometimes perform astounding mathematical feats in a matter of seconds. Lily was such a person. I craved her approval. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/daniel-martin/there-are-people.md) > The writing was impeccably neat and legible though rather crabbed into the centre of the page; I saw a neat crabbed man behind it. Presumably some sort of retreat, one of those desiccated young Catholics that used to mince around Oxford when I was an undergraduate. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/daniel-martin/the-writing-was.md) > I still couldn’t accept that this was not some nightmare, like some freak misbinding in a book, a Lawrence novel become, at the turn of a page, one by Kafka. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/daniel-martin/i-still-couldnt.md) > I played him the Goldberg Variations. If one wishes to reduce a sensitive German to tears there is no surer lachrymatory. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/daniel-martin/i-played-him.md) > She had a kind of genius for picking the wrong man. She always looked for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole romantic kitchen, whereas I lived by a simpler diet, prose and pudding. I don’t expect attractive men to have attractive souls. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/daniel-martin/she-had-a-kind.md) > All good science is art. And all good art is science. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/daniel-martin/all-good-science.md) > Though not large it had a certain elegance; a pilastered portico, windows with graceful pediments. The whitewashed façade was in shadow, a palid blue against the evening sky’s pale blue. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/daniel-martin/though-not-large.md) > All the time I felt I was being watched, that I was not alone, that I was putting on an act for the benefit of someone, that this action could be done only if it was spontaneous, pure – and moral. Because more and more it crept through my mind with the chill spring night that I was trying to commit not a moral action, but a fundamentally aesthetic one; to do something that would end my life sensationally, significantly, consistently. It was a Mercutio death I was looking for, not a real one. A death to be remembered, not the true death of a true suicide, the death obliterate. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/daniel-martin/all-the-time.md) > It. Is. Not. Ended. There was just the trace of a humourless smile on his face; and more than a trace of menace. As if he meant something more than that there was a sequel to this scene; but that the whole Nazi weltanschaaung to be, resurrected and realised. He was an impressively iron man... [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/daniel-martin/it-is-not.md) > I saw that this cataclysm must be an expiation for some barbarous crime of civilisation, some terrible human lie. What the lie was, I had too little knowledge of history to know then. I now know it was our believing that we were fulfilling some end, serving some plan, - that all would come out well in the end, because there was some great plan over all. Instead of the reality. There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/daniel-martin/i-saw-that-this.md) > Utram bibis? Aquam an undam? [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/daniel-martin/utram-bibis-aquam.md)