Famous Julian Barnes Quotes

  • Time…give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical. – Julian Barnes

    Time…give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.– Julian Barnes

  • Irony – The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity. – Julian Barnes

    Irony – The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.– Julian Barnes

  • If you turned your back on irony, it curdled into sarcasm. And what good was it then? Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul. – Julian Barnes

    If you turned your back on irony, it curdled into sarcasm. And what good was it then? Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul.– Julian Barnes

  • I don’t ever want to get old. Spare me that. Have you the power? No, even you don’t have the power, alas. – Julian Barnes

    I don’t ever want to get old. Spare me that. Have you the power? No, even you don’t have the power, alas.– Julian Barnes

  • … forty’s nothing, at fifty you’re in your prime, sixty’s the new forty, and so on. – Julian Barnes

    … forty’s nothing, at fifty you’re in your prime, sixty’s the new forty, and so on.– Julian Barnes

  • I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen. – Julian Barnes

    I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.– Julian Barnes

  • ..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information. – Julian Barnes

    ..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.– Julian Barnes

  • There is violence in this supposedly tender heart of mine. – Julian Barnes

    There is violence in this supposedly tender heart of mine.– Julian Barnes

  • Games are for childhood, and sometimes I think I lost my childhood young. – Julian Barnes

    Games are for childhood, and sometimes I think I lost my childhood young.– Julian Barnes

  • Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke. – Julian Barnes

    Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.– Julian Barnes