"As was the custom in such cases, the……" — Robert Graves
"As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned."
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75 Quotes by Robert Graves
Robert Graves has 75 quotes on this site.
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Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to…
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat…
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of…
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There is one story and one story only.
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are…
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The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War…
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We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like…
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The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing…
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No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief…
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a…
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Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought,…
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More Burned Quotes
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
— Matsuo Basho
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I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The…
— Scott Adams
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay…
— Jo Brand
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I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.
— Summer Altice
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Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated…
— Carl Sagan
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The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it…
— John Bunyan
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One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes…
— Thomas Reed
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Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be…
— Mary Alice
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They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But…
— Lydia M. Child
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Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush…
— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
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On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping…
— Edward Conlon
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