"Kill if you must, but never hate: Man……" — Robert Graves
"Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight"
—
Robert Graves
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
75 Quotes by Robert Graves
Robert Graves has 75 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to…
-
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat…
-
The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of…
-
There is one story and one story only.
-
Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are…
-
The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War…
-
We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like…
-
The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing…
-
No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief…
-
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
-
To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a…
-
Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought,…
See all 75 quotes by Robert Graves »
More Blight Quotes
This quote is filed under Blight Quotes,
one of 53 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories…
— Winston Churchill
-
Love denied blights the soul we owe to God.
— William Shakespeare
-
Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or…
— George Bernard Shaw
-
How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If…
— Bonnie Raitt
-
I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of…
— Isak Dinesen
-
Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit…
— William Blake
-
America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty,…
— Stewart Udall
-
It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
-
Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!
— Carl Jung
-
Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.
— Ingrid Newkirk
-
Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the…
— Charles Lamb
-
Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the…
— Roger Scruton
See all 53 Blight Quotes »