# Chocky

- Author: [John Wyndham](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham.md)
- Quotes: 6
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/chocky

## Quotes

> Everybody ought to be able to swim.

p. 81 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/chocky/everybody-ought-to-be-able.md)

> I have been astonished before, and doubtless shall be again, how the kindliest and most sympathetic of women can pettify and downgrade the searing anguishes of childhood.

p. 118 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/chocky/i-have-been.md)

> I don't understand women. Nobody does. Least of all themselves.

p. 15 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/chocky/i-dont-understand.md)

> I felt a poignant memory of those desolate patches of disillusion which are the shocks of growing up. The discovery that one lived in a world which could pay honour where honour was not due, was just such a one. The values were rocked, the dependable was suddenly flimsy, the solid became hollow, gold turned to brass, there was no integrity anywhere . . .

p. 124 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/chocky/i-felt-a-poignant.md)

> "An open mind is a difficult thing to keep."

p. 57 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/chocky/an-open-mind.md)

> "Intelligent life is the only thing that gives meaning to the universe. It is a holy thing, to be fostered and treasured.
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> Without it nothing begins, nothing ends, there can be nothing through all eternity but the mindless babblings of chaos . . .
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> Therefore, the nurture of all intelligent forms is a sacred duty. Even the merest spark of reason must be fanned in the hope of a flame. Frustrated intelligence must have its bonds broken. Narrow-channelled intelligence must be given the power to widen out. High intelligence must be learned from."

p. 142 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/chocky/intelligent-life-is-the.md)