Malcom Forbes Quotes

“The art of conversation lies in listening.”

“It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared.”

“When you read," the man whispered, "you discover who you really are. You find traces of yourself, little pieces you didn't know were there.”

“How can I possibly stop loving you when it's sort of predestined? — Malcom Lowry to Carol Brown, 1926 (age 16)”

“I have carried that ring every moment of the last twelve years. I bought it the day after I first saw you at the ball. The ruby reminded me of the rose gleaming in your black hair."~Lord Malcom Ashford”

“Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else freedom.”

“When you read,' the man whispered, 'you discover who you really are. You find traces of yourself, little pieces you didn't know were there.”

“To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.”

“Nature is usually wrong.”

“Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will.”