Monica Furlong Quotes & Sayings

People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together ... together they do awful things they don't mean to do. — Monica Furlong

What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else. — Monica Furlong

I don't like cleaning or dusting or cooking or doing dishes, or any of those things," I explained to her. "And I don't usually do it. I find it boring, you see."
"Everyone has to do those things," she said.
"Rich people don't," I pointed out.
Juniper laughed, as she often did at things I said in those early days, but at once became quite serious.
"They miss a lot of fun," she said. "But quite apart from that
keeping yourself clean, preparing the food you are going to eat, clearing it away afterward
that's what life's about, Wise Child. When people forget that, or lose touch with it, then they lose touch with other important things as well."
"Men don't do those things."
"Exactly. Also, as you clean the house up, it gives you time to tidy yourself up inside
you'll see. — Monica Furlong

All learned people learn Latin. It's bound to come in useful. Fairy tales, on the other hand, are about real life. — Monica Furlong

What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups. — Monica Furlong

Resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe. — Monica Furlong

Wise Child: Why don't you beat me then?
Juniper: I can't be bothered. — Monica Furlong

If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation. — Monica Furlong

It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done. — Monica Furlong