T. H. White Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
-- T. H. WhiteSource : T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.562, Penguin
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“Only fools want to be great.”
-- T. H. WhiteSource : T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.159, Penguin
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“Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?”
-- T. H. WhiteSource : T.H. White (2012). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.64, University of Texas Press
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“The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.”
-- T. H. WhiteSource : T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.203, Penguin
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“Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.”
-- T. H. WhiteSource : T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”
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“In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.”
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“I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The only thing which has made life bearable…has been the diversity of creatures on the surface of the globe.”
-- T. H. WhiteSource : T.H. White (2012). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.68, University of Texas Press
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“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.”
-- T. H. WhiteSource : T. H. White (1983). “The Maharajah and Other Stories”, Berkley
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“Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.”
-- T. H. WhiteSource : T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.192, Penguin
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“Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.”
-- T. H. WhiteSource : T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.40, Penguin
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“If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.”
-- T. H. WhiteSource : T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”
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“Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
-- T. H. WhiteSource : T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”
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“The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something.”
-- T. H. WhiteSource : "The Sword in the Stone". Book by T. H. White, 1963.
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“I think I ought to have some eddication,"said the Wart, "I can't think of anything to do.”
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“If God is supposed to be merciful,' [Arthur] retorted, 'I don't see why He shouldn't allow people to stumble into heaven, just as well as climb there”
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“If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?”
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“I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn”
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“Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.”
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“War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about one thing in particular.”
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“Unfortunately we have tried to establish Right by Might, and you just can't do that”
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“Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more nervous and imaginative. He could imagine the effect of each blow that was aimed at him, and this weakened his defense. Wart was only an infuriated hurricane.”
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“Cavall came simply and gave his heart and soul.”
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“The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.”
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“You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.”
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“It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps mankind would turn its might against them. Unfortunately man is preyed upon by microbes, which are too small to be appreciated.”
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“Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?”
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“Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds”
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“Might does not make right! Right makes right!”
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“The word "feral" has a kind of magic potency which allied itself to two other words, "ferocious" and "free." To revert to a feral state!”
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