"It was called a tribute before a battle……" — T.H. White

"It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards."

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80 Quotes by T.H. White

T.H. White has 80 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Aviators live by hours, not by days.
I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one…
You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of…
The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only…
Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust,…
Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time,…
Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness,…
Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be…
The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and graceful horn of pearl... The glorious thing about him was his…
Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you…
The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.
Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.

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More Afterwards Quotes

This quote is filed under Afterwards Quotes, one of 621 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you… — Margaret Atwood
God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so… — Teresa of Avila
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine… — Honore de Balzac
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. — Ambrose Bierce
Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark,… — Elayne Boosler
The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward. — Shana Alexander
Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards. — Lewis Carroll
Sentence first, verdict afterwards. — Lewis Carroll
During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won… — Amy Chua
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year.… — Winston Churchill
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on… — Thomas Aquinas

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