Gavin Ewart quotes

“Bad men do what good men only dream.”
-- Gavin Ewart

Source : Gavin Ewart (2011). “Selected Poems 1933-1993”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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“Sex suppressed will go berserk, But it keeps us all alive. It's a wonderful change from wives and work And it ends at half past five.”
-- Gavin Ewart

Source : 1966 'Office Friendships'.

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“My life may be much happier to-morrowHunger and love that press against the body,The two eternal needs we recognise,Desires that so relentlessly pursue one,May get me down or raise me to the skiesAnd make me a Don Bradman or Don Juan.”
-- Gavin Ewart

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“Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.”

“This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.”

“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”

“As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.”

“A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.”

“The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.”

“I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf.”

“Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.”

“Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.”

“The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.”