Absurd Quote by T.H. White Download Open image ““Everything not forbidden is compulsory”” — T.H. White ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurd Government Humor Totalitarianism
Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“And so every one of us has to find out for himself what is allowed and what is forbidden--forbidden for him. It is entirely… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“Guenever began to breathe through her nose. She was feeling as if there were two red thumbs behind her eyeballs, trying to push them… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“Gawaine and Gareth took turns with the fat ass, one of them whacking it while the other rode bareback.” — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“No. There is one fairly good reason for fighting--and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a wickedness, perhaps… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“It is generally the trustful and optimistic people who can afford to retreat. The loveless and faithless ones are compelled by their pessimism to… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“The mustard—pot got up and walked over to his plate on thin silver legs that waddled like the owl’s. Then it uncurled its handles… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“It was Christmas night, the eve of the Boxing Day Meet. You must remember that this was in the old Merry England of Gramarye,… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“I see what you think you mean," said the magician, "but you are wrong. There is no excuse for war, none whatever, and whatever… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“I suppose the best way to tell the story is simply to narrate it, without an effort to carry belief. The thing did not… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“It is only the people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things.” — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“The fortress was entered by tunnels in the rock, and, over the entrance to each tunnel, there was a notice which said: EVERYTHING NOT… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“I incline my agreement with Toirdealbhach,' said Gareth. 'After all, what is the good of killing poor kerns who do not know anything? It… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
