Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Torday

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British writer Paul Torday.

Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Paul Torday was a British writer and the author of the comic novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. The book was the winner of the 2007 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing and was serialised on BBC Radio 4. It won the Waverton Good Read Award in 2008. It was made into a popular movie in 2011, starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt.

British - Writer | 1946 - December 18, 2013

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I taught you to take the first step: to learn to believe in belief. And one day you will take the second step and find what is it you believe in.

Paul Torday

Faith is the cure that heals all troubles. Without faith there is no hope and no love. Faith comes before hope, and before love. (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Zaidi bani Tihama)

Paul Torday

It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it... If God wills it, the summer rains will fill the wadis... and the salmon will run the river. And then my countrymen... all classes and manner of men-will stand side by side and fish for the salmon. And their natures, too, will be changed. They will feel the enchantment of this silver fish... and then when talk turns to what this tribe said or that tribe did... then someone will say, Let us arise, and go fishing.

Paul Torday

I believe in it because it is impossible.

Paul Torday

It would be so good to settle down and become part of somewhere again, instead of constantly passing through

Paul Torday