Author: Patrick Gale

Cites

• Winston Churchill (1)
  • IN: Tree Surgery for Beginners (1999) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl -- no superior alternative has yet been found.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Ring Lardner (1)
  • IN: Tree Surgery for Beginners (1999) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Keith Rushforth (1)
  • IN: Tree Surgery for Beginners (1999) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The main cultural requirement is to form a sound branch system which will be capable of withstanding the gales, falls of wet snow and other natural calamities to which the tree will be subjected during its life.
    FROM: The Hillier Book of Tree Planting and Management, (1987), Book, UK
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Cat Sanctuary (1990) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: His Integrity of Heart And distinguish'd Abilities (never prostituted to base purposes) Render'd Him at once, The Ornament of Society And the Delight of all who knew him.
    FROM: Memorial in Church of St Mary Magdalene, Lanceston, (None), Religious Text, US
• Maurice Yvain, Albert Willemetz & Jacques-Charles (1)
  • IN: The Cat Sanctuary (1990) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Quand il me dit, "Viens!" J'suis comme un chien.
    FROM: Mon Homme, (1920), Song, France
• D. H. Lawrence (1)
  • IN: The Facts of Life (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self And the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long, difficult repentance, realisation of life's mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.
    FROM: Healing, (None), Poem, UK
• W. H. Auden & Chester Kallman (1)
  • IN: Rough Music (2000) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I turn away, yet should I turn back the arbour would be gone and one the frozen ground the birds lie dead.
    FROM: The Rake's Progress, (1951), Opera, UK
• Ronnie Biggs (1)
  • IN: Rough Music (2000) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I often dream about walking down a Cornish lane in the summertime with high hedges on either side full of butterflies.
    FROM: The Daily Telegraph, (1999), Article, UK
• Thomas Hardy (1)
  • IN: Rough Music (2000) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Let us shut it out,' coaxed Elizabeth-Jane, noting that the rigid wildness of Lucetta's features was growing yet more rigid and wild with the nearing of the noise and laughter. 'Let us shut it out!'
    FROM: The Mayor of Casterbridge, (1886), Novel, UK
• Thomas à Kempis (1)
  • IN: A perfectly good man (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: All perfection in this life hath some imperfection bound up with it; and no knowledge of ours is without some darkness.
    FROM: De Imitatione Christi, (1427), Book, Netherlands/Germany