All T.H. White Quotes
- If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition? Altered
- I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn Anarchist
- Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go. Come Easy
- War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about one thing in particular. All
- Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it. Die
- In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight. Elders
- There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught… Aged
- But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which we were intimately… All
- A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion and profusion of… Ability
- There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness,… Allowed
- But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons. Bright
- It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards. Afterwards
- The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts… Collection
- Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power.… Bait
- They had a year of joy, twelve months of the strange heaven which the salmon know on beds of river shingle, under the gin-clear water.… Bed
- You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but… Disposal
- If people reach perfection they vanish, you know. Inspirational
- Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist. All
- ...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption. All
- They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unless you gave. And you had to… Beautiful