"The nice thing about the queen of Flanders'……" — T.H. White
"The nice thing about the queen of Flanders' daughter, had been that she did not laugh at him. A lot of people laughed at you when you went after the Questing Beast - and never caught it - but Piggy never laughed. She seemed to understand at once how interesting it was, and made several sensible suggestions about the way to trap it. Naturally, one did not pretend to be clever or anything, but it was nice not to be laughed at. One was doing one's best."
—
T.H. White
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
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.
See all 80 quotes by T.H. White »
More Beast Quotes
This quote is filed under Beast Quotes,
one of 880 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
— Aristotle
-
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
-
What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and…
— Diane Ackerman
-
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
-
Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.
— Brigitte Bardot
-
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
— Aeschylus
-
I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
— Cate Blanchett
-
We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not…
— Daniel Boone
-
Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and…
— Robert Browning
-
As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes…
— A. S. Byatt
-
In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws…
— A. S. Byatt
-
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
— Albert Camus
See all 880 Beast Quotes »