Bryce Courtenay Quotes

Sean Penn's really the only one stupid enough to put anything down on paper.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.

It does no harm to throw the occasional man overboard, but it does not do much good if you are steering full speed ahead for the rocks.

Cardinals are never off-base. They are often ill-advised.

I went through a phase where I thought it was really funny to make pratfalls in very crowded places. I jumped out of a moving car once, for a laugh. That was a mistake.

Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

The truth is that I'm an idiot. I am. I don't do things by the rules sometimes. I say things that I probably shouldn't say. I push buttons. I deserve to be made fun of. And I feel like, as soon as you can make fun of something, it instantly removes the fear.

I'm sure there have been a lot of boys I've chased over the years that has been fueled by alcohol and stupidity. But that's kind of how things happen - sometimes you have to do something really stupid, and sometimes it works out, and sometimes you fall flat on your face.

That damn fool will get himself killed by some other damn fool.

Public men have, however, to pick their steps as best they may, for the straight path would lead too often to the cliff-edge.

Every act of folly can be justified by the deed that preceded it.

It is profit that makes a wise man loose his senses.

Humans have a tendency towards short-term thinking.

Nations in great crises and difficulties have often done that which in their prosperous and powerful hour they would not have done.

Sometimes I do things that are not really the right way because I'm daring, in a way.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

There are no good options in the midst of a crisis.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

I'll always find the hardest path. Needless to say, not always a good idea.

I didn't want to be one of those people that does something that blows up and keeps doing it for way too long.

I was kind of wild. I enjoyed myself as a young man. I was moving 100 miles per hour - on and off the field.

I had no shortage of wild times in my youth.

I like a drink and enjoy being Jack the Lad. I've had a few scraps and spent a night in a cell.

I got in so much trouble when I was doing 'Snatched' in Hawaii.