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1 " Great fear can cast love out. "
― Olivia Manning , The Great Fortune (Balkan Trilogy #1)
2 " ... freedom is the knowledge of necessity and there is no wealth but life. When you understand that you understand everything. "
3 " Ignorance breeds fear. Tell people the truth. Trust them to keep their heads. "
― Olivia Manning , The Danger Tree
4 " Was there any more repellent sight, Harriet wondered, than a silly, self-centred, greedy woman clad in the skin of a beast so much more splendid than herself? "
― Olivia Manning , The Spoilt City (Balkan Trilogy, #2)
5 " Harriet was reminded of Doamna Flöhr’s claim that the exclusiveness of the Jews was the exclusiveness of the excluded. "
6 " [T]he exclusiveness of the Jews was the exclusiveness of the excluded. "
7 " The sense of belonging together had been deeper than love. "
8 " Enjoy yourself while you've still got the chance. "
9 " A man is made by his circumstances", said Guy. "If you want to change him, you must change his circumstances. "
― Olivia Manning
10 " Don't be silly, you only catch what you fear to catch", and, fearing nothing, he saw himself immune. "
11 " Every marriage was imperfect and the destroying agents, the imperfections, were there, unseen, from the start. "
― Olivia Manning , The Levant Trilogy
12 " A mist lay on the sea, very white but thinning here and there so the water beneath could be seen looking like green milk. "
― Olivia Manning , School for Love
13 " This was a world in which only the ignorant could be happy. "
― Olivia Manning , Friends and Heroes (Balkan Trilogy, #3)
14 " He had only to arrive to take a step away from her. "
― Olivia Manning , The Balkan Trilogy
15 " They have,’ she said, ‘the uniformity of their insecurity. "
16 " She’s just a typical bourgeois reactionary.’ ‘You mean, her prejudices are different from yours. "
17 " an age of chivalry as outmoded as honour, as obsolete as truth. "
18 " was probably significant that he was physically short-sighted. He could not recognise people until almost upon them. Their faces were like so many buns. Good-natured buns, he would have said, but Harriet did not agree. She saw them in detail and did not like them any the better for it. He "
19 " The trouble with prejudice is, there’s usually a reason for it,’ but she now knew better than to say this to Guy. "
20 " Oh, come, darling,’ Guy protested, ‘I didn’t want to marry Sophie, but one has to be polite. "
