Gerald Kersh Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
August 26, 1912 – November, 5, 1968.

Gerald Kersh was a British and later also American writer of novels and short stories. Born in 1912, Kersh began to write at the age of eight. After leaving school, he worked as, amongst other things, a cinema manager, bodyguard, debt collector, fish and chip cook, travelling salesman, French teacher and all-in wrestler whilst attempting to succeed as a writer.

But books, when you want to buy them, are costly and, when you need to sell them, valueless.

Gerald Kersh
- Books
- Buy
- Sell
There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

Gerald Kersh
- Moment
- Hates
- Torment

I can't believe in the God of my Fathers. If there is one Mind which understands all things, it will comprehend me in my unbelief. I don't know whose hand hung Hesperus in the sky, and fixed the Dog Star, and scattered the shining dust of Heaven, and fired the sun, and froze the darkness between the lonely worlds that spin in space.

Gerald Kersh
- Mind
- Space
- Unbelief
When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step.

Gerald Kersh
- Step
- Watch
- Smiling
In proper men there is hidden a light which darkness makes visible. I believe that the hope of mankind is in this buried glory; the spirit which makes true men hang on to the throats of their enemies at the very rim of the grave.

Gerald Kersh
- Hope
- Light
- Glory
Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on.

Gerald Kersh
- War
- Shine
- Boots