T.H. White

“Elaine had done the ungraceful thing as usual. Guenever, in similar circumstances, would have been sure to grow pale and interesting—but Elaine…

— T.H. White

“God save King Pendragon, May his reign long drag on, God save the King. Send him most gorious, Great and uproarious, Horrible…

— T.H. White

“If you achieve perfection, you die.”

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“He, unfortunately for himself, had been beautifully brought up. His teacher had educated him as the child is educated in the womb,…

— T.H. White

“Love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.”

— T.H. White

“Long ago, when I had my Merlyn to help, he tried to teach me to think. He knew he would have to…

— T.H. White

“He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in…

— T.H. White

“The plain of Bedegraine was a forest of pavilions. They looked like old-fashioned bathing tents, and were every colour of the rainbow.…

— T.H. White

“But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which…

— T.H. White

“There was just such a man when I was young—an Austrian who invented a new way of life and convinced himself that…

— T.H. White

“But his heart had been made as a match for Elaine's, and now it was unable to bear the burden which hers…

— T.H. White

“I have been thinking,” said Arthur, “about Might and Right. I don’t think things ought to be done because you are able…

— T.H. White

“...in going to sleep he had learned to vanquish light, and now the light could not rewake him.”

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“My father always used to tell one of his dreams, because it somehow seemed of a piece with what was to follow.…

— T.H. White

“And in the winter, which was confined by statute to two months, the snow lay evenly, three feet thick, but never turned…

— T.H. White

“A good way of naming a day, is to call it by its wind. 'Wednesday' is an impersonal thing, but days are…

— T.H. White

“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there…

— T.H. White

“It was at the outskirts of the world that the Old Things accumulated, like driftwood round the edges of the sea. ("The…

— T.H. White

“Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe--his courage no more than a reflex to…

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“The Wart did not know what Merlyn was talking about, but he liked him to talk. He did not like the grown-ups…

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“I am a failure in the world. I do not rule people, nor deceive them for the sake of power, nor try…

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“owls are the most courteous, single—hearted and faithful creatures living. You must never be familiar, rude or vulgar with them, or make…

— T.H. White

“For I am inclined to believe that my beloved Arthur of the future is sitting at this very moment among his learned…

— T.H. White

“Snylrem stnemilpmoc ot enutpen dna lliw eh yldnik tpecca siht yob sa a hsif?”

— T.H. White

“People will do the basest things on account of their so-called honour.”

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