"Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls……" — Robert Graves
"Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls Married impossible men? Simple self-sacrifice may be ruled out, And missionary endeavour, nine times out of ten."
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75 Quotes by Robert Graves
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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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The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general…
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play…
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First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
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The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit…
— Alvar Aalto
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In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
— Martin Amis
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One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one…
— Charles Darwin
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If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of…
— Joseph Paxton
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The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and…
— Karl Popper
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The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of…
— Samuel Johnson
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