All T.H. White Quotes
- 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
- The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of… Blue
- [Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be… All
- She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring… Always Boring
- I will tell you something else, King, which may be a surprise for you. It will not happen for hundreds of years, but both of… Both
- My boy, you shall be everything in the world, animal, vegetable, mineral, protista, or virus, for all I care-before I have done with you-but you… All
- It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments… Admitted
- The nice thing about the queen of Flanders' daughter, had been that she did not laugh at him. A lot of people laughed at you… Beast
- He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to… Along
- A lot of brainless unicorns swaggering about and calling themselves educated just because they can push each other off a horse with a bit of… Bit
- The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats... Age
- There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had… Bindings
- It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough. Innocence
- It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect,… Bad
- It is good to put your life in other people's hands. Good
- It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them. Bad