Charles Edward Montague Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“War hath no fury like a non-combatant.”
-- Charles Edward Montague

#War #Liberty #Fury
“To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.”
-- Charles Edward Montague

#Happiness #Spring #Quotations
“A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.”
-- Charles Edward Montague

#Lying #Taken #Left Out
“Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.”
-- Charles Edward Montague

#Cutting #Patriotism #Razors
“To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off.”
-- Charles Edward Montague

#Strong #Jobs #Pain
“A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.”
-- Charles Edward Montague

#Girl #Mean #Perspective
“Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is. A child in the full health of his mind will put his hand flat on the summer lawn, feel it, and give a little shiver of private glee at the elastic firmness of the globe.”
-- Charles Edward Montague

#Summer #Children #Mean

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