"Marriage is a contradiction in terms of endearment." — Robert Graves
"Marriage is a contradiction in terms of endearment."
—
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 Contradiction Quotes
This quote is filed under Contradiction Quotes,
one of 604 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
-
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely…
— Douglas Adams
-
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the…
— Roland Barthes
-
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
— Georges Bataille
-
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
— William Blake
-
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death,…
— Andre Breton
-
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary…
— Fidel Castro
-
I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the…
— Charlie Chaplin
-
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
-
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer…
— Winston Churchill
-
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all…
— Simone de Beauvoir
-
...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether…
— Thomas Paine
See all 604 Contradiction Quotes »