"Prose books are the show dogs I breed……" — Robert Graves

"Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat."

— Robert Graves

Book Quotes Books Quotes Breed Quotes Cat Quotes Dog Quotes Dogs Quotes My Cat Quotes Prose Quotes Prose Books Quotes Sell Quotes Show Quotes Show Dogs Quotes Shows Quotes Support Quotes

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 Book Quotes

This quote is filed under Book Quotes, one of 14,007 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

See all 14,007 Book Quotes »