Halldór Laxness Quotes

When a man has a flower in his life he builds a house.

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

Well, well, it's enough to make the lice drop dead from my head! Condescend to enter the house.

People don't have the imagination to understand politicians. People are too innocent

Asta Sollilja slept on, her head in the corner, mouth open, chin up, and head back, with one hand under her ear and the other half-open on the coverlet as if she thought in her sleep that someone would come and lay happiness in her palm.

Man is more perfect than god. Although this woman's doctrine, in which she was brought up from childhood, told her than all men were lost sinners, I have never heard her censure a man with so much as half a word. All her life is symbolized in the only words which she knows in her dotage. Please do; and, God bless you.

A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat