Day Of The Jackal Quotes & Sayings

If we try to change our ego with the help of our ego, we only have a better-disguised ego! — Richard Rohr

It often happens, that the sweeter the first fruit of a habit is, the more bitter are the consequences. — Frederic Bastiat

I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them. — James Patterson

The final true artform in what we're talking about is the goal itself. And for us to try and stop that from happening, we're kind of the anti-art. — Kasey Keller

was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips. Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived. "Augrh!" said Father Wolf. "It is time to hunt again." He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: "Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world." It was the jackal - Tabaqui, the Dish-licker - and the wolves of India — Rudyard Kipling

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free. — Margaret Atwood

One day's life of a lion is preferable to hundred years of a jackal. — Tipu Sultan

He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal. — Frederick Forsyth

My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was hired to assassinate De Gaulle.... — Charles Kennedy

True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathises with the distress of every creature capable of sensation — Joseph Addison

It is far better to live like a lion for a day then to live like a jackal for hundred years. — Tipu Sultan

The lot of the bride
to be wed before bed
desired until rotten.
The lot of the author
to be read before bed
admired then forgotten. — Roman Payne