Elspeth Huxley Quotes

They [zebras] looked like highly varnished animated toys.

Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds

You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.

One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.

The pioneer kills what he loves.

How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.

The Beatties were always arguing, it gave them an interest in life.

Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them.

The great point about money was to convert it as quickly as possible into something you could use or enjoy.