Ten of My Favourite Arthur Hailey Quotes
Arthur Hailey, a writer whom I am guessing you love? Here are our 10 best Arthur Hailey quotes for you to enjoy. At Australia Unwrapped we believe every book has at least one quotable line, and our mission is to find them all. Here you will find Arthur Hailey’s top 10 popular and famous quotes. Like every good writer Arthur Hailey made a number of memorable quotes, here are some of our favourites:
Popular Quotes
“I don’t think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.”
― Arthur Hailey
“Don’t put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family’s life have been enriched by this. I think a writer has to experience new environments. There is that adage: No man can really succeed if he doesn’t move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.”
― Arthur Hailey
“Americans see democracy as a remedy for all ills-to be taken three times daily like prescription medicine. It works for them. Ergo – it should work for the world. What America naïvely forgets is that for democracy to function, most of a populace must have something personally that is worth preserving.”
― Arthur Hailey
“There was no surer way to lose the confidence of an audience, or a jury, than by letting them think faster than yourself, so that they became aware of what you were going to say before you said it.”
― Arthur Hailey, Airport
“nastiness. Next day, fat and monstrous, it rumbled up the Mississippi Valley. Finally, over Illinois the storm unloaded, almost paralyzing the state with blizzard winds, freezing”
― Arthur Hailey, Airport
“…a private hell was something you lived with alone, even when someone else’s casual questions nudged old, raw wounds within yourself.”
― Arthur Hailey, Hotel
“It was simply because, as a doctor, I don’t believe a drug should be taken for anything that is just uncomfortable or self-limiting.”
― Arthur Hailey, Strong Medicine
“I learned a long time ago, though—you can’t live other people’s lives. We have to make our own decisions even if we’re wrong.”
― Arthur Hailey
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”
― Arthur Hailey, Detective
“… there is nothing so tedious like the self-righteousness of a young man.”
― Arthur Hailey, In High Places
10 Famous Quotes by Author Arthur Hailey
Quotes for all, here you found our selection of 10 Arthur Hailey quotes. Make sure you help by commenting your best Arthur Hailey quote below and sharing our favourite authors so we can look them up, read some of their works and give you the best quotes we can find. We hope you enjoyed our top 10 quotes by Arthur Hailey. However, feel free to comment below if you disagree or would like to include some other great and memorable Arthur Hailey quotes in our list.
One Final Bonus – Arthur Hailey Quote
“Familiar things, their touch and sight and sound, had become an ache of heart—all encompassing—which filled the waking day and penetrated sleep. Strangely—and in a way it shamed her at the time—there were never nightmares; only the steady procession of events as they had been that memorable day at Madison airport. She had been there to see her family leave for Europe: her mother, gay and excited, wearing the bon voyage orchid which a friend had telegraphed; her father, relaxed and amiably complacent that for a month the real and imagined ailments of his patients would be someone else’s concern. He had been puffing a pipe which he knocked out on his shoe when the flight was called. Babs, her elder sister, had embraced Christine; and even Tony, two years younger and hating public affection, consented to be kissed. “So long, Ham!” Babs and Tony had called back, and Christine smiled at the use of the silly, affectionate name they gave her because she was the middle of their trio sandwich. And they had all promised to write, even though she would join them in Paris two weeks later when term ended. At the last her mother had held Chris tightly, and told her to take care. And a few minutes later the big prop-jet had taxied out and taken off with a roar, majestically, though it barely cleared the runway before it fell back, one wing low, becoming a whirling, somersaulting Catherine wheel, and for a moment a dust cloud, and then a torch, and finally a silent pile of fragments—machinery and what was left of human flesh. It was five years ago. A few weeks after, she left Wisconsin and had never returned.”
― Arthur Hailey, Hotel
