# William Boyd

- Quotes: 19
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd

## Books

- [A Good Man in Africa](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/a-good-man-in-africa.md) — 8 quotes
- [An Ice-Cream War](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/an-ice-cream-war.md) — 2 quotes
- [Brazzaville Beach](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/brazzaville-beach.md) — 2 quotes
- [The Blue Afternoon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/the-blue-afternoon.md) — 2 quotes
- [The New Confessions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/the-new-confessions.md) — 5 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> The natural world is full of irregularity and random alteration, but in the antiseptic, dust-free, shadowless, brightly lit, abstract realm of the mathematicians they like their cabbages spherical, please.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/brazzaville-beach/the-natural-world.md)

> I turned off Sunset Boulevard and drove up Micheltoreno to the site. The day was cloudy and an erratic and nervy wind rattled the leaves of the palmettos that the contractor had planted along the roadside. As I pulled into the curb at number 2265 I saw the old man"

p. 7 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/the-blue-afternoon/i-turned-off.md)

> It seems to me that there are statements about the world and our lives that have no need of formal proof procedures.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/brazzaville-beach/it-seems-to-me-that.md)

> Philip looked at me. "I was going to ask you to dinner tonight, but now that I've seen your lunch I guess you won't be hungry.'

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/the-blue-afternoon/philip-looked-at.md)

> He saw that she treated her marriage to his father as a relentless challenge, an unending struggle under adverse conditions to get her own way. At first this manifested itself only in the naming of her children, but lately, as she had come to know her enemy, or as he had grown more senile and eccentric, evidence of her own personality long-suppressed came increasingly to the fore.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/an-ice-cream-war/he-saw-that.md)

> Can't you keep this bloody place tidy?"

p. 39 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/a-good-man-in-africa/cant-you-keep.md)

> My first act on entering this world was to kill my mother.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/the-new-confessions/my-first-act.md)

> There are so many hypochondriacs out here. I think Murray can spot them a mile off."

p. 51 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/a-good-man-in-africa/there-are-so-many.md)

> I have no idea why he did not like me. Normally, with an age gap of six years, an older brother will treat a younger with fond enthusiasm - a favorite sidekick, an instant fan, almost like a pet - but Thompson's attitudes then, as far as I remember, were either indifference or irritation."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/the-new-confessions/i-have-no-idea.md)

> I know he never loved me, but that, as far as I am concerned, is of little importance. He did not love me because, quite simply, I was a constant reminder of his loss."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/the-new-confessions/i-know-he-never.md)

> Actually I can't stand the man. Sanctimonious, Calvinistic, so-and-so. Totally unsympathetic — can't think why he became a doctor — hectoring, bullying — sort of moral storm-trooper.

p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/a-good-man-in-africa/actually-i-cant.md)

> I want you to get to know Murray because I want you to bribe him."

p. 55 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/a-good-man-in-africa/i-want-you.md)